Re: devel/boost: what's proper shared library version?

2009-05-20 Thread Alexander Churanov
Folks, Could somebody officially and explicitly tell me, how to assign shared library versions for new boost ports? I see following possibilities: 1) Use boost release version as shared library version. This is safe and recommended by boost. 2) Use some other approach. I do not see

Re: devel/boost: what's proper shared library version?

2009-05-20 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Alexander Churanov (alexanderchura...@gmail.com) wrote: Could somebody officially and explicitly tell me, how to assign shared library versions for new boost ports? I see following possibilities: 1) Use boost release version as shared library version. This is safe and recommended

Re: devel/boost: what's proper shared library version?

2009-05-20 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Dmitry Marakasov (amd...@amdmi3.ru) wrote: A small addendum: As I understand, that's .so.1.39 vs .so.139 vs .so.5 .so.139 may be not futureproof as there were (and may be later) 3-component versions i.e. 1.34.1. Also, given that boost seem to update fairy regularily, many (pretty huge)

Re: devel/boost: what's proper shared library version?

2009-05-18 Thread Alexander Churanov
2009/5/16 Jeremy Messenger me...@cox.net: It's highly unlike they will break the ABI in the minor release. I'm agree, it's unlikely. But it's possible and there is not warranty. We haven't bump boost when minor version was released and no issue. What number or blah, I don't care as long as

Re: devel/boost: what's proper shared library version?

2009-05-16 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Thu, 14 May 2009 13:14:26 -0500, Alexander Churanov alexanderchura...@gmail.com wrote: Jeremy, There is no binary compatibility for boost libraries at all. To be precise, they say this may work for some cases, but boost folks are intentionally not examining if such a compatibility exists

Re: devel/boost: what's proper shared library version?

2009-05-14 Thread Alexander Churanov
Jeremy, There is no binary compatibility for boost libraries at all. To be precise, they say this may work for some cases, but boost folks are intentionally not examining if such a compatibility exists between releases. Of course, they provide no warranty of any kind. I've just dropped a message

devel/boost: what's proper shared library version?

2009-05-13 Thread Alexander Churanov
Hi folks! I'm currently working on boost-1.39 port. The wiki http://wiki.freebsd.org/BoostPortingProject reflects most recent project status. And there is a question: what is the proper value for shared libraries installed by boost? As I can see from CVS, devel/boost started setting shared

Re: devel/boost: what's proper shared library version?

2009-05-13 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Wed, 13 May 2009 11:26:56 -0500, Alexander Churanov alexanderchura...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! I'm currently working on boost-1.39 port. The wiki http://wiki.freebsd.org/BoostPortingProject reflects most recent project status. And there is a question: what is the proper value for shared