PS: with http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19470 updating packages would get much easier, just run
sage --package update boost 1.58 --url=... to download the tarball and update the relevant configuration files in Sage On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 7:48:26 AM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote: > > egrep -r boost src/sage > > Sage graphs also use boost > > If you need a newer version the go ahead and package it! > > > On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 4:06:21 AM UTC-8, Emmanuel Charpentier > wrote: >> >> Dear list, >> >> I just discovered that Sage installs a Boost library (it's, curiously, >> called boost-cropped, but according to its SPKG.txt, currently contains all >> of Boost, without patches). >> >> The current version is 1.52. I discovered that this version is too old at >> least for the rstan package of R (a diabolically efficient MCMC sampler), >> which needs Boost>=1.58. See this thread on stan-users >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/stan-users/XygoXG0SoTM> for >> details. >> >> Hence two questions : >> >> 1) What in Sage uses Boost ? >> >> 2) Is someone maintaining it ? >> >> Sincerely yours, >> >> -- >> Emmanuel Charpentier >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
