You can always link yourself to the 0.7.0 branch and continue working with that.

Lucio



On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21/12/09 06:34, Dane Springmeyer wrote:
>
>> As of http://trac.mapnik.org/changeset/1495 Artem has merged the
>> Mapnik2 branch intro trunk. This is really excited, but we warned that
>> now current trunk requires Boost 1.41 (latest release) and introduces
>> a few subtle backward incompatible changes (they are needed) to
>> support Expressions, and we've just barely started documenting here: 
>> http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/Mapnik2
>
> The problem with going all bleeding edge like that is that it makes it
> very hard for people to work with the code. I'm running a full up to
> date F12, an operating system released only a few weeks ago, and yet I
> only have version 1.39.0 of boost so I'm unlikely to be able to do any
> work on mapnik now for at least six months.
>
> Not that I've done much of late anyway, but I just thought I'd point out
> that you limit the community you can involve when you require bleeding
> edge dependencies.
>
> Tom
>
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