Re: [boost] Trying modular Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] Trying modular Boost
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-02 06:03:10

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Beman Dawes
> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 7:36 PM
> To: Boost Developers List
> Subject: Re: [boost] Trying modular Boost
> 
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Paul A. Bristow <pbristow_at_[hidden]>wrote:
> 
> > FWIW here  are some things I didn't understand or did wrong.
> > (And, of course, playing Devil's Decidedly Dumb Advocate ;-)

<snip>

> I've updated both:
> 
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/Git/GitHome
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/TryModBoost
> 
> To try to address those concerns.

Thanks.  I'm sure this will help others who are as ignorant/stupid ;-)

> > But (after a frustrating failure to get SSH access to work - in a
> > separate post) I got to the main course using https:

> > Just over an hour (using my nominal 10 mbps living-in-the-boondocks
> > but line-of-sight radio link) - something that should be noted in the
> > docs (along with a strong recommendation to send to a log file)?
 
> I've done a lot of cloning here during testing, and it is taking 45 minutes on my 3.0 mbps DSL
connection.
> I'm guessing your actual radio link speed is well below 10 mbps or there is some other bottleneck.

(I normally get downloads from Microsoft at 1 Mbyte/second == approx. 10 Mbits/s but there you
go...)

Is the download speed faster using SSH compared to https?

Is it worth continuing to try to get the SSH method to work?

Paul

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