Re: Final Notice: BinTray is shutting down 1-May (that's SATURDAY)

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-05-07 21:10:46

Peppard wrote:
> >>> It would be nice if Boost could provide more persistent download
> >>> URLs, as such changes can mess up automated downloads (scripts,
> >>> Dockerfiles, ...).

On one hand, it does seem useful to provide e.g.

  download.boost.org/boost-1.76.0/boost_1_76_0.7z

as a redirect.

On the other, we already have problems with spiders mirroring the
entire boost.org site along with all the downloads, and these problems
may be exacerbated by moving the URLs to boost.org (as they would
be on the same domain then.)