[boost] Re: Unzipping the Boost distro

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-13 14:02:56

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> 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.
> 
> It the built-in XP extractor is unbearably slow

It generally isn't.  I've never noticed a problem before.  But I heard
of it once -- when I brought a zipped boost distro with me to a course I
was teaching, it took each developer an hour to unzip it.

> my guess is that developers
> will have found an alternate solution long before downloading the boost
> distribution.

Guess again ;-)

> (Maybe during the unzipping XP was doing something helpful like searching for
> updates to Windows Media Player every five seconds.)

Doubtful.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com