David Abrahams wrote:
on Fri Aug 29 2008, Gennaro Prota <gennaro.prota-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
However, once a library has matured to the point that the author would like it to become an official part of Boost, then they ask for a formal review of the code (http://www.boost.org/development/submissions.html), and generally also make a zip file available for download from the vault (just because it's more convenient for potential reviewers that way). Just throwing out an idea: if (and I said "if" :-)) we agree to have
John Maddock wrote: the sandbox as the one place for "incubation", would it be possible, given the current Boost infrastructure, to provide something like SourceForge's "Download GNU tarball" link?
Do you mean, a way to download a .zip snapshot of any given subdirectory of the sandbox?
It's certainly possible. Probably it should be a Trac plugin. Hmm, I wonder if such a plugin exists already.
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