Re: [boost] What is http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_63_0.tar.bz2 ?

Subject: Re: [boost] What is http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_63_0.tar.bz2 ?
From: Steve M. Robbins (steve_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-02-10 15:17:34

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 11:53:30AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely via Boost wrote:

> But this is not the main point. Having archives called
> boost_1_63_0.tar.bz2 that are something completely different to boost
> 1.63.0 is just wrong. That should be self-evident. Putting "snapshot"
> in the name would avoid any confusion (and would not require
> generating a new name every day, which Rene has said would be
> difficult).

I'd like to echo this request to name CI builds differently.

I help maintain Boost for Debian and recently I made the same mistake
of downloading the wrong file from a sourceforge URL reflector because
it was the same filename.  I very nearly released a CI build into
Debian.

-Steve