-----Original Message----- From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Andrey Semashev Sent: 22 May 2016 21:10 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Boost is supposed to serve *the entire C++ community; it isn't Boost's goal to serve Boost's community*
On Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:05:00 MSK Rainer Deyke wrote:
Yes, it's a shame that Ubuntu isn't more proactive about making more up-to-date
compiler
packages available, but there's nothing I can do about it.
Actually, Ubuntu is quite proactive. The latest release is 16.04 (which is also an LTS release) provides gcc 5.3.1 out of the box. Also, there is PPA[1] which provides more recent compiler versions.
[1]:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test excellent! 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? Paul