Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
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.
It the built-in XP extractor is unbearably slow
It generally isn't. I've never noticed a problem before. But I heard of it once -- when I brought a zipped boost distro with me to a course I was teaching, it took each developer an hour to unzip it.
my guess is that developers will have found an alternate solution long before downloading the boost distribution.
Guess again ;-)
(Maybe during the unzipping XP was doing something helpful like searching for updates to Windows Media Player every five seconds.)
Doubtful. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com