Re: [boost] Vault: still needed?

Subject: Re: [boost] Vault: still needed?
From: vicente.botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-22 17:00:24

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From: "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] Vault: still needed?

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> 
> on Thu Jan 22 2009, "vicente.botet" <vicente.botet-AT-wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I think that most of the libraries that you find in the sandbox do not include the
>> html documentation, while the compressed files in the Vault include
>> them. 
> 
> Maybe, but there's no reason we couldn't check the html into the
> sandbox.

The isuue is not about check but about removing the no more useful files. It is not easy to see which files can be removed. 

I realy think that both are complementaty, not every people has acces to SVN.

>> I see
>> authors that store several versions of its libraries. 
> 
> svn cp (tagging) works great.
> 
>> If Boost.Vault have problems with the space we should preserv the last
>> version of each library and remove the old ones.
> 
> It's not so much a space problem as an organizational concern over
> redundant facilities and people not knowing where to look for (or put)
> things.

Yes you are right, it is difficult to know. For locking for there is the Library Under Construction wiki page. If the authors use to use it the people looking for will not have major problems. The case of people asking to where they can put its new library occurs not very offten, and they use to look for other libraries, so they will finish by knowing the  Library Under Construction wiki page.

Regards,
Vicente