Re: [boost] [vault] or maybe sandbox?

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro.prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-30 13:09:21

Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> Just throwing out an idea: if (and I said "if" :-)) we agree to have
>>> the sandbox as the one place for "incubation", would it be possible,
>>> given the current Boost infrastructure, to provide something like
>>> SourceForge's "Download GNU tarball" link?
>>
>> Do you mean, a way to download a .zip snapshot of any given subdirectory
>> of the sandbox?
>>
>> It's certainly possible.  Probably it should be a Trac plugin.  Hmm, I
>> wonder if such a plugin exists already.
> 
> I already implemented downloading a TGZ of any subtree in the SVN repo 
> as part of the regression testing. But I loath pointing it out to people 
> as it's something that if used frequently increases the burden on the 
> svn/web server.

To Dave: yes, that's what I meant. To Rene and everyone: would it be 
possible to enable it selectively? Perhaps only on sandbox/, or only 
some of its subdirectories. At "worst" just on the subdirectory for 
the library under review.

-- 
Genny