23 Oct
2008
23 Oct
'08
12:44 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:28 AM, John Maddock <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
Boost releases are currently packaged four ways.
The problem I see is that CR/NL users still download .zip files twice as often as .7z, and NL users still download about as many .gz packages as bz2.
That seems to be a good argument against the change, while most Linux distro's have bz2, 7z has rather less machine penetration I suspect. I also believe that many commercial *nix distro's don't have bz2 support as standard?
But are not users of Boost supposed to be able to cope with different compression tools? A link to 7-zip and a description of how to unpack bz2 ought to be enough. /$