On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:51 AM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:

on Tue May 27 2008, "Doug Gregor" <doug.gregor-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 2:48 PM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
>> Using SourceForge mirrors doesn't seem compatible with
>> daily snapshots, by the way.
>
> This last bit is a little tricky, because we will be dependent on NSIS
> to do the actual downloads. I don't know how robust it is, but any
> fixes would have to go into NSIS itself.

Why is downloading from mirrors incompatible with daily snapshots?

Because we would have to push out a SourceForge release every day. OTOH, if there is a backup mirror site, we could put the release snapshot to that site, and then test against it.

--Beman