We use GCC 6 from SoftwareCollection 6 and build our own Boost libraries with static linking. The result binaries work on all C7 instances just fine without the need to install any extra packages. The binary size isn't bloated too much by statically linking Boost, because many Boost functions are header templates anyway (but your mileage may vary). Not sure if you have other dependencies but we never feel the need to upgrade the whole OS just to get a newer GCC and Boost. Yan > On Feb 25, 2017, at 6:23 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > >> On 02/25/2017 02:20 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >> Is there any blog that has information on a potential RHEL 8 release date? >> >> boost in 7 is now too old for some things, in addition to gcc. There are >> solutions in 7 to those issues but it's starting to feel like 6 felt >> shortly before 7 came out, so I wonder if it is getting near to time. >> >> I'm working on a major project bitcoin related and it would be >> frustrating to deploy a bunch of CentOS 7 virtual machines only to have >> 8 come out fairly soon afterwards. > > I have no real information on this either .. but one thing to think > about is that RHEL-7 is much less conservative with 'rebases' than the > older RHEL versions. (Case in point, major shifts in Gnome, KDE, Xorg, > etc.) > > With containers and software collections, and with more aggressive > rebases in the Desktop space, I see the timelines becoming a little > longer between major versions. > > Also, as others have said, I see no alpha or beta for RHEL-8 anywhere. > RHEL-5 does go EOL at the end of March 2017, so I guess a beta could > happen soon(ish). > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos