Gautham Banasandra created HDFS-15385:
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Summary: Upgrade boost library
Key: HDFS-15385
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-15385
Project: Hadoop HDFS
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: libhdfs++
Reporter: Gautham Banasandra
Attachments: image-2020-06-03-21-41-49-397.png
The version of the boost library that's currently being used in HDFS is 1.10.2.
It is VERY old. It's from a time when it perhaps the name "boost" wasn't even
conceived. Going by the name of the library, it was probably just called as
"asio".
>From [https://www.boost.org/users/history/] website, the earliest available
>version,1.10.3 is more than 2 decades old as it was released in 1999 -
!image-2020-06-03-21-41-49-397.png!
This really poses a big hurdle when it comes to upgrading to newer compiler
versions as, some the programming constructs that are used in asio-1.10.2 which
were mere warnings back then, get flagged as outright errors with modern
compilers. (I tried to compile Hadoop with Visual Studio 2019 and saw plenty of
such errors).
In the interest of keeping the Hadoop project modern and live, I would like to
propose the idea of upgrading the boost library with the latest.
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