on Thu Jan 22 2009, "Robert Ramey" <ramey-AT-rrsd.com> wrote:
Eric Niebler wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
Hi All,
For some time now, Boostpro Computing has been hosting the Boost file valut, but now that Boost has a great Subversion host I'm beginning to wonder whether the vault is still needed. What's the case for holding onto it when people could just check their speculative work into the sandbox and subsequently merge smoothly into the Boost trunk if it is accepted?
I use the Vault to distribute .zip archives of newer versions of my libraries. I wouldn't want to have to tell people they need a subversion client to get out-of-band bug fixes and features. I say leave it alone.
I think you can do most of that with Trac. See the zip archive link at the bottom of https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset?new=48077%40trunk%2Flibs%2Fxpressive&old=46368%40trunk%2Flibs%2Fxpressive
My $0.02,
Add my 2 cents too.
There is lot's of code there which the author doesn't have time to massage to boost requirements but is still very valuable.
That can still go in the sandbox. The sandbox is for in-development stuff.
In particular there are modules for serialization of a few types which work fine even though there are no tests, documentation etc. Look at the number of downloads.
I don't see how that relates to vault vs. SVN. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com