Re: [boost] anonymous access to boost-consulting

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-03 11:44:33

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of David Abrahams
| Sent: 03 February 2006 15:01
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: Re: [boost] anonymous access to boost-consulting
| 
| "Paul A Bristow" <pbristow_at_[hidden]> writes:
| 
| > Well this is the method of access suggested in the Boost docs!
| >
| > Are you telling me this is no longer available?
| 
| Yes, it has been disabled for a long while, because the sourceforge
| server that provides the nightly CVS tarballs that I try to mirror
| routinely refuses the connection.  I just tried again, and it still
| happens.
| 
| > In order to help with the documentation and examples, I'm trying to
| > get Gennadiy's latest and greatest updates to the Boost.Test library
| > (only).  There are quite a lot of files, so using the web browser
| > doesn't seem practical.
| >
| > Please can you suggest how I can achieve this.
| 
| Use pserver access from sourceforge,

I've reaised this issue with Sourceforge today.

 or use some kind of spidering
| software to walk through and collect the relevant parts of
| http://boost-consulting.com/boost,

This looks a hassle.

 or download the snapshot tarball
| from http://boost-consulting.com/boost.tar.bzw

This also works, but I only really want the test part and sorting the new
files is a nuisance.
| 
| I'm out of other ideas; as long as SF's pserver access is broken, all
| we can do is wait for the change to OSL-supported SVN.
| 
| > Is it that I (we - actually his team is five people) need username
| > and passwords?  
| 
| Usernames and passwords would get you ssh access, which is more
| reliable than pserver access.

This seems the least worst answer.

| > Probably we don't need write access.
| 
| We don't have a reasonable way of giving you ssh access without write
| permission.

I hope we are to be trusted.

Paul 

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