On Monday, January 8, 2024, Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
Hi Glen,
Maybe this issue has been already discussed in the Boost Foundation. According to the minutes, some cost reduction efforts were discussed in the past (Mailing list, Server cost...). This mainly looks like a cost issue to me (if I understand your description correctly, it's not an storage problem but a network bandwidth problem)
Binary download is the primary Boost distribution method, maybe we should try to get some funding or sponsorship through the Boost Foundation. Does it make sense?
Hi Ion, Yes, we have been negotiating for an affordable rate, the most competitive of which we will have a formal quote for on Wednesday (01/10). A free solution or free fallback is still preferable even if it only covers releases, RCs, and betas (and not development snapshots etc.). Yes, binary download here being our tarballs hosted on JFrog currently (not the static libraries built by Tom). Glen