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Boost libraries making their way into mainstream openSUSE

Today I did an update of factory using:

sudo zypper up -t package -r Factory Repo

To pick up the new updates. arizona limousine . I checked out the new packages to be installed and removed and to my surprise I found taht most the boost packages have no been marked to be installed, this in the main stream installation of openSUSE 11.1. storage units . I’ll be interested to see if they all get installed by default with a new installation (I imagine they will). Here’s all the boost packages being installed on my machine right now:

libboost_date_time-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_filesystem-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0libboost_graph-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_iostreams-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0libboost_math-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_mpi-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0libboost_program_options-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0libboost_python-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_regex-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0libboost_serialization-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0libboost_signals-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_system-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0libboost_test-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_thread-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0libboost_wave-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0

As you can see the newest versions are being implemented (1.36.0). I wonder if we’ll get 1.37.0 which is due to be released at the end of October.If you haven’t read the improvements that Boost can bring, or just want to learn more about it I’d highly recommend check it out at www.boost.orgI haven’t seen any openSUSE notification that boost was going to be included, so why the hush hush?


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  1. Boost libraries have always been included. Note that they’re mostly included because they’re a dependency to other packages (or, put another way, they’re needed to build other libraries and applications).
    There’s no “hush hush”.
    - 11.0 has boost-devel-1.34.1-34.i586.rpm
    - 10.3 has boost-devel-1.33.1-108.i586.rpm
    etc…

    There won’t be an upgrade to 1.37 for 11.1, as we’re already in beta phase (which means feature freeze). Only bugfixes are applied.

  2. ben.kevan says:

    Hi Pascal,

    I know boost was included but now it seems a bunch of the other apps are being installed by default, and not just boost itself.

    Is suse going the route of using boost libs for other apps?

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