[Boost-users] Why we are still using boost 1.37

Subject: [Boost-users] Why we are still using boost 1.37
From: Robert Lupton the Good (rhl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-05 19:17:52

>> But I'm curious to know why you are still using 1.42.

Well, I'm still using 1.37 for a large astronomical software project (the LSST).  To quote one of the developers:

> There have been changes to boost::serialization between these two 
> versions that break our persistence code.  The issues appear in test 
> segfaults for packages at the afw level and higher.

We could presumably find the problem in our code (or what's changed in boost::serialization) but that's real work.  It's easier to patch boost::gil 1.37 to work with gcc 4.4 (or was it 4.5)?

                                                R