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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 08:11:07PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> On 2017-03-26 07:32 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> FYI, when I was running Linux Mint 17 I only had boost 1.54 (IIRC). Now that
> I'm on 18.1 I have boost 1.58. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu which tends to
> lag behind some other distros by a bit. This information is one data point
> for you to consider in deciding the minimum version.

Mint lags behind terribly. I would refuse to draw the line anywhere
before the absolutely most recent version of Mint. They really need to
sort out their silly release schedule - there's no reason for their
release based on Ubuntu $v to be so far behind Ubuntu $v, they could
be tracking Ubuntu development internally and release at almost the same
time...

> 
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> 
> Kevin.
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