OpenOffice and boost

Nakata Maho maho.nakata at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 12:14:50 UTC 2014


> Boost have been updated to 1.55
> Question, is it worth still having openoffice-3 in the ports tree?

No. Please remove it or I will remove it.

Thanks
 Nakata Maho
 
From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: OpenOffice and boost
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:51:59 +0100

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:10:07AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> Hello;
>> 
>> Maho-san has updated openoffice-devel to the last version that used 
>> stlport internally. This is a great advance for the upstream OpenOffice 
>> as it means that it will start using modern STL functionality by default.
>> 
>> In general OpenOffice now uses TR1 functionality from Boost to replace 
>> what libstdc++ may not have.  Unfortunately this will not work in 
>> FreeBSD 9.x due to a bug in boost.
>> 
>> In order to update OpenOffice further it is necessary (but probably not 
>> sufficient) to either update boost to version 1.55 (best) or apply 
>> ports/181044.
>> 
>> I know there have been complains about the maintenance (or lack of it) 
>> in the openoffice ports but there are limits on to what Maho and I can 
>> do. It would also be great if someone works on adding staging to the 
>> OpenOffice ports.
>> 
>> Best regards,
> 
> Boost have been updated to 1.55
> Question, is it worth still having openoffice-3 in the ports tree?
> 
> 
> regards,
> Bapt


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