Rene Rivera wrote:
And I keep arguing that the common use case for the sandbox, and Boost in general, is precisely the inverse of what you think it is.
I'm not sure anyone should presume to know what the common use case is :)
Good point... I was basing my statement on personal observations. There have been two or three persons who mentioned getting the whole of sandbox as a usual pattern for them. Although I can only specifically remember Victor saying that at this time.
FWIW I checked out the whole SoC 2006 svn because I was interested in the active development and I just SVN switched the tags over to empty folders to save hard drive space. IMO an empty folder should be provided somewhere high up in the repo for this explicit purpose. Probably at ( http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/empty ). If you're checking out the whole sandbox because you want to see what is changing it seems you might be interested when things are branched/tagged as well. If you check out the whole sandbox with the sandbox/ --project/ ----branches/ ----tags/ ----trunk/ layout you get to see new tags and branches easily. After noticing it if you decide it's not worth your drive space you can simply svn switch it away to the empty folder. - Michael Marcin