#17966: Include the entire boost library
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Reporter: slelievre | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.9
Component: packages: | Resolution:
standard | Merged in:
Keywords: boost | Reviewers:
Authors: fbissey | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Commit:
Branch: | 17822f86318a5cbf5d4f7fa2df19bc8f63c2d099
u/fbissey/boost_1.59.0 | Stopgaps:
Dependencies: |
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Comment (by charpent):
I opened #19570 for a different purpose. François Bissey pointed me to the
present ticket (which I somehow missed while searching Trac for boost) and
Jeroen Demeyer closed the ticket.
I do not understand the issues at hand. As far as I understand, the
current Sagemath packages husr the boost subdirectory, which is sufficient
for current Sagemath, whereas, as pointed out by François, various voices
have spoken in favor of the inclusion of the whole hawg, for goals that do
not seem overly clear to me.
As far as I can tell :
* The original reason of including boost (polybori, a. k. a. brial) is
fulfilled by the current packaging (headers only).
* This packaging is no longer stripped from polybori sources, but a
subdirectory of the original boost tarball.
* The bits needed by Nathaan Cohen for its graph manipulation purposes
also are in place.
* The reasons for packaging the whole hawg are not yet definite plans.
* This packaging needs significant work.
So could we split this work in two :
1. update the current packaging of the headers (that would fix my problemn
and possibly Nathaans's too).
2. develop the packaging of the whole boost.
The packaging of the headers is already a standard package, and therefore
should probably remain so. The complete libary could become an optional
package, on which new optional packages could depend.
However, if some standard package (e. g. ECL) could benefit of the
inclusion of the whole boost, this library should become standard...
What do you think ?
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