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

From: Walter Landry (wlandry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-01 18:24:54

"Aleksey Gurtovoy" <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> 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?

I should and I have.  The code is not magically blessed, delivered by
the gods from on high.  People need to make modifications for whatever
reason.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry_at_[hidden]