On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:23 PM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote:
I read that Boost 1.37+ does support gcc 4.4.0. Boost 1.34 was released in 2007. Boost 1.37 at the end of 2008. Is that too recent for us to be able to use it?
Increasing the version of Boost for Windows is not a big problem, since we have our devlibs. For Linux, I do not know the issues involved.
You need to go over the various target distro's and see what they have supported.
Off hand, it sounds like a good idea to not make *inkscape* require newer versions of libs if we can help bit, but on any *specific* platform the newer Boost might be a dependency of the compiler or vice versa.
For instance, if an end user needs Boost 1.99 to work with their gcc 5.7 compiler, then they are free to jump all the way up to that.
See if you can run an update pass on
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tracking_Dependencies#Libs
and
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tracking_Dependencies#Distros