Re: Boost Downloads

From: Tim Haines (thaines.astro_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-06-06 16:14:04

> Summary:
>
> Boost downloads will be hosted at a new location, with the URL format
> https://archives.boost.io/release/1.85.0/source/boost_1_85_0.tar.gz
>
> Details:
>
> During the last couple of years the Boost downloads have been hosted on
> JFrog Artifactory, and before that on Bintray. JFrog has been very
generous
> in providing the bandwidth and hosting services.
>
> Recently, bandwidth increased into the 150TB/month range. JFrog requested
> the download be moved behind a CDN, or migrated to another service
entirely.
>
> At the C++ Alliance, we have set up load balanced AWS EC2 instances, and
> configured a Fastly CDN, on the domain archives.boost.io. Fastly offered a
> discounted bulk rate based on the large amount of traffic.
>
> The boost.org website now shows links to the new CDN.
>
> If you are using any automated scripts that point to jfrog.io, the
existing
> JFrog links will continue to function until December 2024.
>
>
> - Sam Darwin

I maintain the Boost spack package[1]. The versions currently available
there go back to 1.39.0. However, the versions available on
archives.boost.io only go back to 1.63.0. Are the older versions going to
be available there or will they remain on the sourceforge hosting?

Thanks.
- Tim

[1]
https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/boost/package.py

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