[boost] Re: Unzipping the Boost distro

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-13 14:59:42

David Abrahams wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>> David Abrahams wrote:

>> It the built-in XP extractor is unbearably slow

Should be 'If', but I guess you figured out what I was trying to say

> 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.

Ouch.

>> my guess is that developers
>> will have found an alternate solution long before downloading the
>> boost distribution.
>
> Guess again ;-)

Okay.

I guess if this is a problem which might occur for the first time while
unzipping boost, it makes sense to provide a self-extracting archive in addition
to the three formats already provided.

Jonathan