[boost] Re: searchable list archive + integer.hpp request

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-02 11:25:57

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

> At 11:56 AM 8/1/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>  >"Neal D. Becker" <nbecker_at_[hidden]> writes:
>  >
>  >> I know I (and others) have previously asked about extending
>     integer.hpp to
>  >
>  >> handle 64-bit types.  I don't recall the conclusions of the
>     discussion, >> though, and on visiting the boost archive, I don't
>     see a search
>  >> option.
>  >
>  >How many options do you want?
>  >
>  >http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm#archive
>
> The problem is that the link in the above to "searchable mailing list
> archive" is to http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Archives/boost/
> which is just a list of year/month archives. No "search" option
> visible on that page. So there is a real issue here, and it leads
> people to think that there is no search option available.

OK, but all of those other archives are also searchable.  Maybe you'd
like to try rewording the page to make that clearer?

> Which page on the activestate.com should the link point to? Perhaps
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/boost? That
> would seem to solve the search and most recent posting needs, but
> doesn't seem to link to
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Archives/boost/.

Yep, http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/boost/ is
the one.

> I keep having the sense that there is (or should be) some third "index
> to the Boost archive" page on the ActiveState site that I am somehow
> missing, and that is what we really should be linking to.

I don't think there's anything else.

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Dave Abrahams
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