Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.asio

[Thomas Moschny]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> [...]
> right now the only thing I've done
> on it is bump the Boost version requirement to 1.35, which lets us get
> rid of the boost/ directory in the source tree (they finally
> incorporated the circular_buffer classes into the official
> distribution).  They don't seem to have broken anything we use going
> from 1.34 to 1.35.

In general, I very much appreciate the whole effort of getting rid of
all the 3rd party stuff we carry around.

I wonder though, whether we are going to loose the ability to build on
older/long term support distributions. For example, RHEL5 has pcre 6.6,
and (through the EPEL add-on repository) boost 1.33.1. So, building
monotone 0.43 for EPEL will cause some headache, I fear (and the same
might hold for other lts or server distributions).

- Thomas