[boost] Re: Unzipping the Boost distro

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-13 11:33:22

I used WinZip without problem - I didn't notice how long it took so it must
have been a short time.

Robert Ramey

David Abrahams wrote:
> I just downloaded boost-1.32.0 and started to unzip it with the
> built-in facilities in Windows XP; the OS reported it was going to
> take 50 minutes and it was *crawling*.  Using cygwin's unzip tool it
> was done in under a minute.
>
> I'm thinking we should stop distributing raw .zip files  without an
> extractor...