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?
That's true, but both 7z and bz2 are trivial to obtain and install nowadays. We could document how to do that. I know we are probably a bit ahead of the uptake curve for both of these, but they are well on their way to becoming the standard on Windows and POSIX-like systems respectively. --Beman