Hi Gennaro, Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota@yahoo.com> wrote:
long time I wanted to ask this: why do we use the vault rather than the boost sandbox? Wouldn't the latter make our lives much easier?
Do you mean the sandbox CVS? I think the vault is more appropriate for stuff that's mentioned in mailing list discussion. It is usually simpler to download a single package using a web browser than to check out something from CVS, and not all readers may have access to CVS or the ability to check out from repositories not on their own network. Also if you check out of CVS you won't get documentation that's normally prebuilt into a download package.
After all, once a library is finalized we could even delete it from there, if pollution is a problem, but at least we would have a clear view of the changes and a straightforward way to get the latest version without having to remember that a new one was announced on the list :-)
Maybe there's another solution that meets the requirements of libraries that aren't yet in an official boost release? A page on www.boost.org that links to the latest download packages for the in-development libraries, perhaps? Cheers, Chris