On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Wasik Mursalin Rushafi <rushafi@gmail.com>wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to download the latest boost library from here<http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.42.0/>but failing. is there any problem? isn't it available or I am the only one facing this problem?

What is your country of residence? I can download it, but lately I read this post on TeXNicCenter web-site:

SourceForge.net <http://sourceforge.net/> is our provider of development and download services. Last month they decided<http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/> to exclude users from Cuba, Iran, North Korea and other countries from downloading our and other software hosted on their site; thereby following US export restrictions. I (and I am confident that the rest of the team follows me on this one) believe that export restrictions are not compatible to the spirit of Free Software. Furthermore, TeXnicCenter is predominantly developed in Germany, i.e., US law does not apply. And even if US law would apply, we do not use any technology that is subject to US export restrictions (e.g., encryption). Hence, the exclusion of some of our users by SourceForge was a big disappointment to me and triggered thoughts about switching to a different site. Yesterday, SourceForge announced<http://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-SourceForge-removes-blanket-blocking/> that they changed this policy in the following way: every project can now decide whether they fall under the US export restrictions or not. If not, project admins are able to open the download service for their project to the whole world. This is exactly what I did today. May be Boost-Project had some similar issue? I tried to start the download from Germany and it worked. Regards, Ovanes