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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