Re: [boost] [release management] Drop .gz and .zip release packaging?

Subject: Re: [boost] [release management] Drop .gz and .zip release packaging?
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-23 08:28:09

Beman Dawes wrote:
>> Boost releases are currently packaged four ways.

>> The problem I see is that CR/NL users still download .zip files
>> twice as often as .7z, and NL users still download about as many .gz
>> packages as bz2.

That seems to be a good argument against the change, while most Linux 
distro's have bz2, 7z has rather less machine penetration I suspect.  I also 
believe that many commercial *nix distro's don't have bz2 support as 
standard?

John.