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

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-01 10:11:26

Tarjei Knapstad writes:
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 13:33, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> Maybe not for the files, but the directories definitely need +w,
> otherwise I can't write to them. (In other words, I can't even build now
> without changing the permissions of at least the directories because jam
> can't write to/create the build directories).

You are right, of course; will be fixed. 

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering