[Smtk-developers] Bump boost requirement to 1.60?

[Robert Michael O'Bara]

Eventually C++ 2017 wil have filesystem in it - just cant wait that long - If we can’t use 1.60 then we will have to use kwsys (or write our own) - does everything build with 1.60?

Bob


Robert M. O'Bara, MEng.
Assistant Director of Scientific Computing

Kitware Inc.
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> On Jan 29, 2016, at 3:54 PMEST, David Thompson <david.thompson at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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