Re: [Boost-testing] svn takes ages to get the trunk

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] svn takes ages to get the trunk
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-04 09:23:18

frederic.bron_at_[hidden] wrote:
> When running the tests in non-incremental mode, it takes ages to
> download the libraries with svn (hours). Could it be possible in such
> case to just download a tarball that would be updated every day on
> the server? Or just switch to git instead of svn because then
> transfer is packed in big files. I have recently switched my projects
> to git and it is really much better than svn.

There is already an option in the test script for downloading an 
on-demand tarball instead of using svn. Check the scripts docs for how 
to do it 
<http://www.boost.org/development/running_regression_tests.html>. But 
I'm worried that it's taking so long for you. Is anyone else having this 
problem?

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