Re: [boost] What is http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_63_0.tar.bz2 ?

Subject: Re: [boost] What is http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_63_0.tar.bz2 ?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-02-10 15:22:17

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Steve M. Robbins via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 11:53:30AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely via Boost wrote:
>
>> But this is not the main point. Having archives called
>> boost_1_63_0.tar.bz2 that are something completely different to boost
>> 1.63.0 is just wrong. That should be self-evident. Putting "snapshot"
>> in the name would avoid any confusion (and would not require
>> generating a new name every day, which Rene has said would be
>> difficult).
>
> I'd like to echo this request to name CI builds differently.

+= 1

> I help maintain Boost for Debian and recently I made the same mistake
> of downloading the wrong file from a sourceforge URL reflector because
> it was the same filename.  I very nearly released a CI build into
> Debian.

Doesn't Debian check hashes either?

-- 
Olaf