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Date:      Sat, 17 Apr 2021 13:38:10 +0200
From:      Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl>
To:        Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>, Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Boost versions
Message-ID:  <f6a433e3-6812-7acf-db06-6a0317d19e38@withagen.nl>
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On 17-4-2021 13:09, Li-Wen Hsu wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 6:58 PM Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>> Ceph has moved to Boost 1.75, so now it is build with the project.
>>> Which is of course a pity.
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to also get Boost 1.75 in ports?
>>
>> There is this one PR which touches the topic:
>>
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246106
>>
>> It looks like a major undertaking!

Why is that?
If I look at what is in phabricator, the largest part is diffs on the
plist?

> 
> I don't think office@ currently has enough manpower to maintain boost
> ports. I suggest we need to seek a new maintainer or form a group to
> maintain it.
> 
> I am also interested in updating boost, but I don't think I can
> maintain it solely. I can help on porting, allocating resource to
> test, but I don't think I can fix all the issues during upgrading and
> exp-run myself alone. I hope the maintenance of the  complex ports
> like this can be a team work.
> 
> Is anyone interested in joining the effort?

I am importing boost 1.75 raw into Ceph, and build it there.
That seems to work for what ceph needs.

There used to be several versions of Boost in parallel.
So perhaps that is the best way to avoid having to deal with ABI/API 
breakage...
After that it is up to the maintainers of the dependant packages to
update their package and start using boost-1.75.

The report in bugzilla suggests that that is all what other maintainers ask.

Or am I too simple in thinking this?

--WjW





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