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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Tue Jan 30 2007, 12:27:49AM CST] |
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> * Hard dep upon boost. This sucks for g++-4.1 users. |
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Agreed. Worse, it's a stop-gap measure, since presumably the long term |
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solution is for tr1 to be supported directly by the compiler on all |
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archs. So, any work done with this approach would just have to be |
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undone in the future. |
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> * Hard dep upon g++-4.1, which isn't available for all archs. This |
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> doesn't even work because there's no guarantee that >=4.1 is being used |
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> even if it's installed. |
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I haven't done my homework, so I'll just ask: Is there a reasonable |
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timeframe for 4.1 on archs that we're using? Is there actual evidence |
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that tr1-using packages are going to become prevalent before 4.1+ |
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becomes ubiquitous? |
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An alternative, which would be a real pain, is to have <g++-4.1 ebuilds |
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build boost tr1 libraries as part of the ebuild, and then have |
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compatibility libraries for people who remove old versions of g++, |
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just like we do now. The benefit would be that at the cost of forcing |
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everybody to upgrade g++ we could rely on tr1 existing everywhere. |
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*Shrug* Hopefully somebody has a better idea. |
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