Change Boost dependency to 1.54 or above?

[Sumit Bhardwaj]

Sounds good. I didn't realize Centos 7 was that far behind.

​Thanks,
Sumit​

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> On zaterdag 2 september 2017 09:35:17 CEST Sumit Bhardwaj wrote:
> > Some time back, John had asked if we can move our Boost dependency to
> 1.54
> > or above so we can use Boost::log. I wanted to check back to see if we
> are
> > at a point where we can move Boost from 1.53 which is where we have it
> now.
> >
> > For reference, Fedora 22 shipped on May 26, 2015 with Boost version 1.58.
> > Fedora 26 has version 1.63 and Boost's latest version is 1.65.
> >
> Fedora is not a very good reference to determine the lower limit of package
> versions. It generally is very close to upstream.
>
> The distros to check are the long-term supported ones: RHEL/Centos, Ubuntu
> LTS, Debian stable,...
>
> For Ubuntu we currently still have to support 14.04LTS (Trusty), because
> that's what our test environment on Travis uses. That platform however is
> ok.
> It has boost 1.54 and 1.55 is available as well.
>
> Debian stable was at 1.55 last time I checked.
>
> RHEL/Centos 7 unfortunately are only at boost 1.53. There are ways to get
> more
> recent versions of boost there, but that would mean either building from
> scratch or configuring a foreign repository. If we require that we
> essentially
> state we're no longer supporting RHEL/Centos 7.
>
> I'm inclined not to do that and stick with 1.53 instead.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>