From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of David Abrahams

I just downloaded boost-1.32.0 and started to unzip it with the built-in facilities in Windows XP; the OS reported it was going to take 50 minutes and it was *crawling*. Using cygwin's unzip tool it was done in under a minute.

I'm thinking we should stop distributing raw .zip files without an extractor...

Hmm, I have never tried it. I always use Info-Zip's unzip or the built-in unzipper in some file manager. A notice about this strange behavior on the download page with a link to some good unzipping tool (preferably without the cygwin dependency) would do, for example the official Info-Zip site: http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html#Win32 Links to unpackers for the downloadable files are also on other sites. And you may consider submitting a feature change request to Microsoft ;-) Ferda

Dave Abrahams