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: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-02-12 21:43:59

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Jonathan Wakely via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> On 9 February 2017 at 15:14, Neil Groves via Boost wrote:
>> > The actions required from this, as I see them are:
>> > 1. eliminate the forwarding of the URL to snapshots. This may require
>> > altering the filename of the archive based on earlier discussions about
>> > the source forge forwarding logic. Perhaps include snapshot and date in
>> > the archive name?
>>
>> Someone (Rene IIRC) has previously stated that putting a date in the
>> filename would be problematic, as the CI scripts would need to keep
>> looking for a different filename (and the date the CI jobs run might
>> not be the same day as the last snapshot was made). Just putting
>> "snapshot" in the name would be sufficient to show it's not the
>> release, and maintain a stable name for the CI processes to look for.
>>
>
> I'm traveling, and busy, for work this week so I haven't had a chance to
> look at making those changes. Earliest I can get to it is this weekend. If
> someone else wants to give it a shot the CI release build script is here:
> https://github.com/boostorg/release-tools/blob/develop/ci_boost_release.py
>
>

That's now done. Ci generated archives now have "-snapshot" as a tag in the
file name.

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