[CMake] FindBoost.cmake updated on the bugtracker

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2008-04-12 10:07+0200 Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> <personal opinion>
> My experience with MinGW so far is that its simply not ready yet for
> projects such as boost or KDE, they still need some time. Thats why
> I won't do work on getting KDevelop4 working on MinGW - at least not
> without someone paying for it.
> </personal opinion>

That's fine, but then somebody else with access to windows should
volunteer to do that testing since MinGW is an extremely important platform.

I don't have access to windows myself, but I have been fascinated over the
years at just how popular MinGW has been at SourceForge.  Usually, that
software is in the top 25 projects there (rated in terms of an activity
index made up of a number of factors including downloads).  For example,
from
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=2435&ugn=mingw&type=prdownload&mode=12months&year=2008&package_id=0
they have from 300 to 600 thousand (!) downloads per month over the last
year.

Finally, from our PLplot experience, MinGW (fortunately we do have a couple
of developers with access to that platform) works fine if you make some
special adjustments for its needs.  So Andreas's above statement probably
needs to be reversed, i.e., boost and KDE need some time/effort to work on
MinGW.  Such effort should be worth it since there is obviously _a lot_ of
interest in the MinGW platform that would be a shame to ignore for any
project.

My $0.02.

Alan

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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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