I would love to see a more actively maintained PPA for Boost on Ubuntu too,
but am afraid that I don't have capacity to offer to help with that myself.
On cpp-ethereum we have to maintain multiple PPAs with many more
re-packagings of external dependencies than I would like. We've also got
Homebrew packaging, Windows installers, DMGs for OS X, and have a "fake
package repository" for our Windows binaries. I'm hoping we can start to
leverage NuGet C++ on Windows, but I'm not sure if it is possible. There
is Chocolatey too.
The fragmented packaging story for C++ is a huge problem for maintainers
and for distribution of libraries.
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Andrey Semashev
On Monday, 23 May 2016 17:21:42 MSK Paul A. Bristow wrote:
however, a quick search of Launchpad only finds Boost 1.55
https://launchpad.net/~boost-latest/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
How can we get the most recent Boost release (and/or master) available to Ubuntu users as easily?
I guess, someone would have to take over that PPA or create a new one. There's this note:
IMPORTANT: Due to this PPA main contributor (f4l3) disagreement with Canonical decisions and strategies, no active user is working on this PPA any more. If you are interest in helping this PPA packaging more recent versions of the BOOST library, please send an email to f4l3.
https://launchpad.net/~boost-latest
From the links in the PPA description it looks like this should have been a kind of official (?) repository, although I never heard of it before.
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