Gautham Banasandra created HDFS-15385: -----------------------------------------
Summary: Upgrade boost library Key: HDFS-15385 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-15385 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Improvement Components: libhdfs++ Reporter: Gautham Banasandra Attachments: image-2020-06-03-21-41-49-397.png The version of the boost library that's currently being used in HDFS is 1.10.2. It is VERY old. It's from a time when it perhaps the name "boost" wasn't even conceived. Going by the name of the library, it was probably just called as "asio". >From [https://www.boost.org/users/history/] website, the earliest available >version,1.10.3 is more than 2 decades old as it was released in 1999 - !image-2020-06-03-21-41-49-397.png! This really poses a big hurdle when it comes to upgrading to newer compiler versions as, some the programming constructs that are used in asio-1.10.2 which were mere warnings back then, get flagged as outright errors with modern compilers. (I tried to compile Hadoop with Visual Studio 2019 and saw plenty of such errors). In the interest of keeping the Hadoop project modern and live, I would like to propose the idea of upgrading the boost library with the latest. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: hdfs-issues-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: hdfs-issues-h...@hadoop.apache.org