
23 Oct
2008
23 Oct
'08
12:18 p.m.
Boost releases are currently packaged four ways. With CR/NL line endings: boost_1_37_0_beta1.7z 27,340,204 boost_1_37_0_beta1.zip 57,017,457 With NL line endings: boost_1_37_0_beta1.tar.bz2 29,494,538 boost_1_37_0_beta1.tar.gz 36,436,716 I'd like to drop the .zip and .gz packages, starting with release 1.38.0. The primary motivation is a personal one; as release manager I do a lot of FTP transfers and would like to spend less time waiting for the big .zip and .gz packages to upload/download. 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. Comments? --Beman