Re: [boost] [release management] Drop .gz and .zip release packaging?

Beman Dawes wrote:

I'd like to drop the .zip and .gz packages, starting with release 1.38.0.

Please, no. If you want to drop some some packages, I'd drop the .7z and .bz2. On Windows, .zip is standard ... on Vista, Explorer has built-in support for it. And on *nix, .gz is the de-facto standard. IMO, .7z and .bz2 are nice-to-have but not necessary, and certainly shouldn't be the only ones we provide. -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com