[Nix-dev] boost libraries

Mathijs Kwik mathijs at bluescreen303.nl
Mon Jul 2 23:27:51 CEST 2012


Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:

> Hi Lluís,
>
>  > This boost update broke some other programs.
>
> do you know which ones?

I downgraded boost to 1.47 for mongodb.
1.50 doesn't work yet
and 1.49 went away, so I figured 1.47 would be closest.

Seems to work fine. I don't know if 1.49 would be better in any way, but
at least it's not a hard requirement.

>
>
>  > Peter said that he wanted to remove 1.49 due to some boost upstream decision.
>
> I felt that 1.49.0 should be removed because I assumed that it's no
> longer required. Packages require that version, then we should keep it
> of course.
>
> Take care,
> Peter
>
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