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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

Going up to 1.67 won't be possible, since 18.04 is estimated to be
supported by KiCad until 2023 (
http://kicad-pcb.org/help/system-requirements/). If anything, it might make
sense to go to 1.59 now, and re-evaluate it farther in the v6 development
(such as when the Python minimum version is also re-evaluated).

-Ian

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 8:49 PM Blair Bonnett <blair.bonnett@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've recently been playing with some features I'd like to add to KiCad
> (will be able to submit a patch soon I hope). As part of this, I'm adding
> some unit tests. I see that unit_test_utils.h within the qa has a number of
> macros working around Boost pre-1.59, and there's some features introduced
> in Boost 1.59 which would make my testing a lot cleaner.
>
> Currently, the main CMakeLists.txt specifies a minimum version of 1.54 for
> Boost. This was released on 1 July 2013 [1]; incidentally, this was 18
> months before the formal release of C++14 (approved August 2014, released
> December 2014) which is mandated in CMakeLists.
>
> I've done a quick survey of the versions of Boost in some of the larger
> Linux distributions, with the results as follows:
>
> Arch: 1.69 [2]
> Debian stable: 1.67 [3]
> Debian oldstable: 1.62 [4]
> Fedora 30 and 31: 1.69 [5]
> openSUSE: 1.69 [6]
> Ubuntu 19.04: 1.67 [7]
> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: 1.65 [8]
> Linux Mint 19.2: based on Ubuntu 18.04, so 1.65
>
> It's worth noting that Debian oldstable has KiCad 4.0.5 and Ubuntu 18.04
> LTS has KiCad 4.0.7, so I'd say there is no need to worry about targeting
> them for KiCad 6. This presumably also means Linux Mint is using 4.0.7 and
> is also not of concern.
>
> Based on this, from a Linux point-of-view I'd say its fairly safe to bring
> the minimum Boost requirement up to 1.67 for KiCad 6. However, I'm not sure
> what the Mac and Windows builders use -- they may require a lower version.
> There may also be other reasons I've missed to keep an older version as the
> minimum requirement.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Blair
>
> [1] https://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_54_0.html
> [2]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/boost/
> [3] https://packages.debian.org/buster/libboost-all-dev
> [4] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libboost-all-dev
> [5] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/boost
> [6]: https://software.opensuse.org/package/boost-base
> [7] https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/libboost-all-dev
> [8] https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libboost-all-dev
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