Re: [boost] Moving away from SourceForge

Subject: Re: [boost] Moving away from SourceForge
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-01-22 15:37:46

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Louis Dionne <ldionne.2_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know this has been discussed in the past, but I would like to revive the
> discussion about moving away from SourceForge as Boosts' release hosting
> provider. SourceForge has at least the following issues:
>
> - There is no way of controlling the format when downloading an archive of
>   the latest release. This can break people that rely on this in their CI
>   scripts. For example, Metabench's[1] CI was broken for a while when the
>   archive changed from .bz2 to .zip.
>

True.. But what you observed was a human error. The release team forgot to
set the default OS download file.

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