Lucas DeShazer wrote: > On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > >> Dane Springmeyer wrote: >>> The changes in mapnik trunk [1] may not be compatible with boost >>> 1.33.1. So, if possible I'd recommend using boost 1.35 or > for >>> compatibility with trunk. >> Note that this drops support for Ubuntu Hardy, which is the most >> recent >> long-term-support release and is only eight months old -- it has boost >> 1.34.1. That seems premature to me. >> >> Reid > > But if you're trying to use a long-term supported release, perhaps > you'd be better off using the mapnik build that's already included?
It's pretty old and crusty IIRC; I was disappointed that 0.5.1 (the version we use currently) was not in Hardy. > If you want to be on the cutting edge of mapnik and still use Hardy > you can use apt-pinning to install the boost version that's in > Intrepid, I believe. We don't administer the boxen ourselves. I don't believe systems staff would be very keen on apt-pinning to another version. They don't install stock Ubuntu; there's some customization process (that I don't understand) and then they install that. I have no idea what Boost 1.35 features are used; maybe they're important, maybe they're not. Since mapnik has been getting along fine for quite a while on 1.33, I'm skeptical. My point is that it seems a bit early to drop support for a distro that's not even a year old yet. I wanted to point out that not all users have the same flexibility in distro that the developers do. Reid _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
