Re: [boost] [1.32 Release] Draft tarballs are available

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-01 07:33:15

Tarjei Knapstad writes:
> On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:27, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> > Draft zip/tarballs for the 1.32 release are available from the
> > following locations:
> > 
> >     http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2
> >     http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.gz
> >     http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.zip
> > 
> > These are NOT the tarballs that will be released; rather, they are
> > the first probe aiming to uncover whatever problems we are still
> > unaware of (including problems with archives preparation)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> The first two archives does not give write permissions to the user (for
> the unarchived files). 

That's intentional. After all, normally you shouldn't be modifying anything
in the distribution. Or should you?

> Permissions are -r--r--r-- for files and
> dr-xr-xr-x for directories. Should be -rw-r--r-- and drwxr-xr-x.
> At least it's not 777 like last time :D

Well, obviously we've worked on this :).

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering