Fair enough. It's a while since I downloaded Boost.

I had in mind some other systems I use where multiple formats are available (not including 7z) and the tar.* formats are available and smaller than .zip.

Regards,

Richard.

From: Boost-users [boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] on behalf of Daniel James [daniel@calamity.org.uk]
Sent: 04 July 2013 19:13
To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Any special differences between unix and windows source code packages?

On 4 July 2013 10:36, Kerry, Richard <richard.kerry@atos.net> wrote:
>
> And noting of course that .tar.bz2 and .tag.gz are not Unix-family platform specific.
> Tools for handling them are available on Windows. They tend to provide better compression than .zip so I use them (on Windows) whenever available.

The .7z file is the smallest download.
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