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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

What's wrong with setting the minimum boost version to 1.59?  If this is
the version that has the testing features that you need and presumably
all later versions, then this should suffice.  I would prefer that we
maximize the number of supported distros whenever possible.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 8/28/19 2:49 PM, Blair Bonnett 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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