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

[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 to boost and they confirmed that there is no
compatibility between releases.

So then, my question was not about binary compatibility. I was sure it
does not exist. And yes, we need to rebuild all ports that depend on
boost each time the libraries are updated.

The question is: "how correctly assign versions to shared libraries from boost?"

I suggest using boost release version, because this is most clear and
obvious way. It's supported by boost out-of-box. The only concern is
whether library names like libboost_date_time.so.1.39.0 are acceptable
for FreeBSD.

Alexander Churanov,
maintainer of devel/boost