I tried following the directions on the web site - http://www.boost.org/users/download/ Which states the following:
ACCESSING THE BOOST SUBVERSION REPOSITORY
The Subversion repository
can be accessed in several ways:
* Anonymous, read-only access to
the Boost Subversion repository is available at http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost [1]. To access the current Boost development code, for instance, one would check out from http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk [2]. For example, using the command-line svn, one might use:
svn co
http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk [3] boost-trunk
On Windows, TortoiseSVN [4] provides an easy-to-use, graphical interface to Subversion.
However it didn't work. It started to, it got part way through the download then asked for a password. Now that's all it does:
~/boost $ svn co http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk boost-trunk
Authentication realm: Boost SVN repository Subversion Access
Password for 'user':
svn: OPTIONS of 'http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk': authorization failed: Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge (http://svn.boost.org)
What password is expected, and why is it not listed on the web page in the download instructions? http://www.boost.org/users/download/ Links: ------ [1] http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost [2] http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk [3] http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk [4] http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/