On 1/29/04 1:32 PM, "Baptiste Lepilleur" <blepctc@free.fr> wrote:
Hi Beman, generating a unix tarball would be easier for unix users. Previous issue for windows have(?) already been fixed and all unpacking tool support tar.gz.
SourceForge provides the 'compile farm' service which allow users to log into unix box hosted by sourceforge, with access to the cvs and your boost.sf.net user account (through sftp).
From there, it should be fairly simple to do a cvs checkout, the tar ball, send it to your user account with sftp, and login into your shell account, transfer the tar ball in some subdirectory of the boost web site.
When building the final archive, it'll be better to do a CVS export so the administrative directories will be removed. Optionally, after making the tar-ball, we could compress it with the bzip2 program, which makes the smallest archives. After transferring the boost.bz2 file to the web site, then it can be revised to *.gz and *.zip files. Does the compile farm have Windows boxes? If so, maybe a similar procedure can be done to create the *.zip file instead.
I used to do that for a project of mine using a simple modem, and it worked great. Since your accessing cvs from a sourceforge machine, the checkout is done in a fairly short time, and you don't even have to upload the 10Mo archive!!!
Well, this was just to let you know that this option exist.
-- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com