Re: [boost] Unzipping the Boost distro

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-13 11:57:58

At 10:16 AM 12/13/2004, 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...

The XP unzip tool is a disaster speed wise. That has nothing to do with 
Boost; the problem affects any .zip file of more than trivial size.

I'm not sure we need to do anything about it, other than perhaps add a 
mention on the download page.

--Beman