On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot@gmail.com> wrote:

frederic.bron@alcan.com wrote:

When running the tests in non-incremental mode, it takes ages to
download the libraries with svn (hours).

Hmm, when our (non-incremental) tests run, we download to an NFS
mounted disk and the total download time never exceeds 10 minutes.
The current Boost svn configuration seems to work very well for us.

It may be my USB FAT32 disk that is too slow for that huge number of small files...

Oh, definitely... Both of those are slow individually. I can't even imagine how slow they would be in combination! Hence I doubt switching to the tarball would help you. Since expanding all the files out would likely be just as slow as the direct svn checkout.