[Smtk-developers] Bump boost requirement to 1.60?

[David Thompson]

> Personally I would be hesitant to upgrade our boost version for a
> feature that shouldn't be hard to replicate.

Except that there are many corner cases (*cough* Windows drive letters *cough*) that make it harder than you might think to replicate.

Also, the only reason we rely on boost is the filesystem library (and soon polygon, but that is optional). So it seems odd to implement something that a library we depend on has implemented in a later revision. If we're going to do that, then we should eliminate the boost requirement and just use it optionally for polygon. :-)

	David

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> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:58 PM, David Thompson
> <david.thompson at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> What about using kwsys::RelativePath ?
>> 
>> SMTK does not require VTK (which is the only place we would inherit kwsys).
>> 
>> I would rather make the relative path thing optional if you have an older boost than add another dependency.
>> 
>>        David
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