Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] boost-utils.eclass -- for building against newest boost.

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:47:07 +0200
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com> wrote:

> 2012-09-09 10:06:43 Michał Górny napisał(a):
> > No, we don't support older versions.
>
> Older versions must be supported to easily handle the situation when Boost 1.49 is stable and
> Boost 1.50 and 1.51 are unstable and not package.masked and package X has only stable ebuilds
> and all of them currently fail to build/work with Boost >=1.51, so BOOST_MAX_VERSION="1.50" would
> have to be used in all ebuilds of package X.
> (Boost 1.49 would be used for stable users and Boost 1.50 would be used for unstable users.)

You are probably right. Even though I believe that we should treat
'older slot' support only as an interim solution before people fix
their packages...

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Best regards,
Michał Górny