Re: Boost downloads and JFrog

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-01-08 15:55:25

On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 7:44 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> What's the purpose of development snapshots? Can we drop them in favor
> of git checkout?
>

The development snapshot is effectively a release. It has all the headers
collated into the proper root include directory. It has all the sources in
the right place for building each lib. It has the rendered HTML. The
snapshot allows anyone to efficiently test whether or not an issue is
resolved in the tip of a branch for example.

"git checkout" doesn't provide anything remotely resembling a proper
release. To function as a drop-in replacement for an installed official
release of Boost would require a lot of post-processing after checking out
the superproject using git.

Thanks