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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/26/2017 7:13 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can someone please confirm authoritatively which Boost version is
> installed on the Jenkins boxes? I recently had to "fix" my code to build
> on Boost 1.55 [1], making it rather ugly in the process. Out of
> curiosity I checked our documentation just now, and it claims that we
> require 1.56 or later [2], on which my code should have worked!

CMakeList.txt shows:

find_package( Boost 1.54.0 REQUIRED COMPONENTS system )

That seems fairly old to me but every time we bump a dependency version,
users on older platforms get dropped.  Anyone have an idea of what a
reasonable minimum version of boost that wont leave too many users out
of luck?

> 
> So are the build boxes really behind our own minimum version? Or was I
> wrong in my deducion about the problem with my code? And if the boxes
> are indeed behind...can we please upgrade them?
> 
> [1] https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=68853c988ef31a24b979c7239102439d4196fb67
> [2] http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/md_Documentation_development_compiling.html#boost
>