[jira] [Assigned] (HDFS-15385) Upgrade boost library

["Bibin Chundatt (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Bibin Chundatt reassigned HDFS-15385:
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    Assignee: Bibin Chundatt

> Upgrade boost library
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>                 Key: HDFS-15385
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-15385
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: libhdfs++
>            Reporter: Gautham Banasandra
>            Assignee: Bibin Chundatt
>            Priority: Critical
>         Attachments: image-2020-06-03-21-41-49-397.png
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> 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.



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