Hey Reid. Boost 1.34 should be fine with trunk on hardy. Sorry, I mispoke and meant to recommend 1.34 or greater
On Dec 20, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Reid Priedhorsky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
