Re: [boost] Vault: still needed?

Subject: Re: [boost] Vault: still needed?
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-23 00:58:55

on Thu Jan 22 2009, Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> For some time now, Boostpro Computing has been hosting the Boost file
>> valut, but now that Boost has a great Subversion host I'm beginning to
>> wonder whether the vault is still needed.  What's the case for holding
>> onto it when people could just check their speculative work into the
>> sandbox and subsequently merge smoothly into the Boost trunk if it is
>> accepted?
>
> If the only purpose of the vault is as a storage for things before
> they get fully boostified, then there's no need for it.
>
> But my understanding is that it contains things that may never become
> official part of Boost. 

As does the sandbox.

> In that case, the vault provides means for distribution of
> Boost-related files, for which SVN is inadequate for the same reason
> it's inadequate to be the only way to distribute Boost itself.

Hmm, I'm still not getting it.  You can even check the files into SVN
and hand out nice URLs:

  http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com