Boost Version Required ?

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 09 October 2014 09:12:15 Aaron Laws wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Geert Janssens
> <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> > Oops.
> > 
> > "Officially" we target 1.48, but apparently some more recent
> > features
> > got used in the last commits.
> > 
> > John, Aaron: how do we deal with this ?
> 
> Good question. Something like the full story can be found at
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736687 . In short, that
> include was added because of a bug identified in jralls's build
> environment: his boost/variant.hpp didn't include the file, so there
> was a compilation issue which was fixed by including it ourselves. My
> version built properly without the include, and we're using the same
> boost version: 1.56.0. Since we target 1.48, perhaps I should get
> that version of boost to make sure to avoid this type of thing. Of
> course, boost 1.56.0 *is* freely available :-).

Freely available, yes. In source code. Prepackaged in linux 
distributions, no. We are usually conservative in our version 
requirements to keep it relatively simple for others to build gnucash 
without also having to build its dependencies.

Current master will not ship for some time to come. By then boost 1.56 
is probably pretty common. However requiring it now already however will 
make it more difficult for others to jump in.

Geert