STILL OPEN: ports/129226: update devel/boost from 1.34.1 to 1.37

Pav Lucistnik pav at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 10 15:26:02 PST 2009


Alexander Churanov píše v ne 11. 01. 2009 v 01:07 +0300:
> 2009/1/10 Pav Lucistnik <pav at freebsd.org>
>         
>         Are you also willing to fix all the applications that will not
>         work with
>         the new version of boost?
>         
>         I understand that's the only concern preventing new boost from
>         being
>         committed.
>         
> 
> Why not fix it in several steps? :
> 
> 1) rename devel/boost to devel/boost-134
> 2) switch all ports depending on devel/boost to devel/boost-134
> 3) check-in boost-1.37 as devel/boost
> 4) have enough time to fix applications depending on boost-1.34
> one-by-one
> 
> This introduces another level of indirection - a common way to solve
> issues like that

That's certainly a possibility -- but can two boost versions coexist in
a single system?

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>
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