Boost version number query

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2013-05-23 12:43, David Stacey wrote:
> There appears to be some inconsistency regarding the version of boost:
>
> For the 'boost' package itself, 1.53.0 is current, with 1.50.0 marked as
> previous.

FWIW, the 'boost' package contains only the sources.

cgf: any chance upset could not list source-only packages separately? 
genini does not, and IMHO that's more sensible (and less confusing).

> For other boost libraries (i.e. 'libboost-devel',
> 'libboost_python-devel', 'libboost_python3-devel') 1.50.0 is current
> with 1.53.0 marked as test.
>
> Is this correct?

Yes, it is, because 1.53.0 was built with gcc-4.7, which itself is still 
marked test.


Yaakov


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