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Boost libraries making their way into mainstream openSUSE

Today I did an update of factory using:

sudo zypper up -t package -r Factory\ Repo

To pick up the new updates. I checked out the new packages to be installed and removed and to my surprise I found taht most the boost packages have no been marked to be installed, this in the main stream installation of openSUSE 11.1. I’ll be interested to see if they all get installed by default with a new installation (I imagine they will).

Here’s all the boost packages being installed on my machine right now:

libboost_date_time-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_filesystem-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0
libboost_graph-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_iostreams-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0
libboost_math-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_mpi-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0
libboost_program_options-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0
libboost_python-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_regex-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0
libboost_serialization-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0
libboost_signals-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_system-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0
libboost_test-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0 libboost_thread-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0
libboost_wave-gcc43-mt-1_36-1_36_0

As you can see the newest versions are being implemented (1.36.0). I wonder if we’ll get 1.37.0 which is due to be released at the end of October.

If you haven’t read the improvements that Boost can bring, or just want to learn more about it I’d highly recommend check it out at www.boost.org

I haven’t seen any openSUSE notification that boost was going to be included, so why the hush hush?

Tags: boost, opensuse, performance