Re: [boost] Vault: still needed?

Subject: Re: [boost] Vault: still needed?
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-23 01:39:26

on Fri Jan 23 2009, Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:08 PM, David Abrahams >> The Boost Vault is
> similarly simpler than a giant SVN tree (I suppose
>>> the word "inadequate" was a bit excessive.)
>>
>> In what way is it simpler?  It appears to be a giant directory tree, too.
>
> I appears that I've misinterpreted what the vault really is. You're
> right, it's also a giant directory tree, the main difference seems to
> be that it contains "packages" as opposed to raw files. Or am I off on
> this too? :)
>
> I still don't understand why it makes sense for the vault packages to
> be in SVN, but the official Boost distribution has to be in
> sourceforge.

Mirrors and traffic, my man.  We could switch the SF thing, but when we
make a new release and people all over the world hit our SVN server,
taking it down and stopping development, you'll wish we were using the
SF release system again.

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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