boost 1.47.0

[Petr Machata]

Hi there,

in accordance with the announced Fedora feature[1][2], we (the Boost
maintainers) plan to rebase Boost to 1.47.0 really soon now.  Boost
1.47.0 has been released recently and Denis Arnaud kindly did the
packaging, so it is ready for scratch builds, smoke testing, and related
fun.

I'll do that in the next few days and if all comes out green-ish, I'll
push the package into Fedora 16 and write a follow-up to this e-mail
with guidelines on overcoming the obstacles, if any.

Further plans: originally, we hoped that 1.48.0 would be about out by
now, and we would manage to get beta into Fedora 16, much like we did
with 1.46.0 for Fedora 15.  But the Boost schedule slipped, and made any
such plans impossible to realize[2].  At the same time, the sentiment of
Boost upstream seems to be to (gradually) get back to the original
schedule, so we may end up with 1.50.0 in Fedora 17.  Handling +3 bump
might end up being more interesting than is desirable, so to alleviate
this, we will most probably want to do at least one larger rebase
mid-Rawhide, either to 1.48.0, or 1.49.0.  I'll write more when I know
more.

Don't hesitate to ping me on irc (_petr) with any concerns that you
have.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F16Boost147
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711845

Thanks,
Petr Machata