"Aleksey Gurtovoy" <agurtovoy@meta-comm.com> wrote:
Tarjei Knapstad writes:
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:27, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
Draft zip/tarballs for the 1.32 release are available from the following locations:
http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2 http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.gz http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.zip
These are NOT the tarballs that will be released; rather, they are the first probe aiming to uncover whatever problems we are still unaware of (including problems with archives preparation)
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The first two archives does not give write permissions to the user (for the unarchived files).
That's intentional. After all, normally you shouldn't be modifying anything in the distribution. Or should you?
I should and I have. The code is not magically blessed, delivered by the gods from on high. People need to make modifications for whatever reason. Regards, Walter Landry wlandry@ucsd.edu