Re: [boost] Boost 1.61.0 Beta 1

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost 1.61.0 Beta 1
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-05 23:49:45

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Stefan Seefeld <stefan_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 05.04.2016 23:34, Rene Rivera wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> >> Sure.. Can you go here <https://bintray.com/boostorg> and hit the join
> >> button near the top. So I can give you access to upload the binaries.
> >>
> >> Well that was a bust. They don't allow files > 250MB on the site.
> Several
> >> of the windows packages are bigger than that.
> >>
> > That is rather unfortunate. I wish they would published what their limits
> > are in the first place. But I guess this is a deal breaker for using
> them.
> >
> > I vote that we go back to sourceforge for our primary download site, they
> >> don't have problems like this.
> >
> > I think I concur on that, at least for the next release. I'll bring this
> up
> > in the release team to see how we move forward in the short term.
>
> Has releasing directly via github been considered ?
> (https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/)
>

It's been mentioned.. But I haven't had time to investigate further. Any
help in finding out.. What limitations it has. What are the requirements
for automating the uploads. What features it has as compared to SF and
bintray.

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