13 Dec
2004
13 Dec
'04
4:57 p.m.
At 10:16 AM 12/13/2004, David Abrahams wrote:
I just downloaded boost-1.32.0 and started to unzip it with the built-in facilities in Windows XP; the OS reported it was going to take 50 minutes and it was *crawling*. Using cygwin's unzip tool it was done in under a minute.
I'm thinking we should stop distributing raw .zip files without an extractor...
The XP unzip tool is a disaster speed wise. That has nothing to do with Boost; the problem affects any .zip file of more than trivial size. I'm not sure we need to do anything about it, other than perhaps add a mention on the download page. --Beman