On 12/13/04 10:16 AM, "David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> 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.
Maybe a bug report needs to go to MS.
I'm thinking we should stop distributing raw .zip files without an extractor...
Which would make it useless to anyone not on a Windows machine. (And don¹t say "use the *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2 versions," because I could've countered with the same advice.) I dislike the idea of executable-wrapped archives in general. You only have a creator's word that the file isn't actually a Trojan and/or infected with a virus. (Even a trustworthy creator may get overridden by a cracker's altered archives.) Those archives are useless to people on other platforms, unless the extractor's developer took extra time to add code to decode the first platform's executable formats. This is late, and it seems that you guys agreed to an extractor-included version as an addition instead of a replacement. Maybe we should add a list of MD-5, or other checksum, values for each of our archives. -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com