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From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-01 08:49:33


On 10/01/07 07:33, Larry Evans wrote:
> On 10/01/07 06:55, Larry Evans wrote:
>> On 10/01/07 01:08, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>> I'm pleased to announce that the next milestone release of Boost.Build V2 is
>>> available at
>>>
>>> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-build-2.0-m12.tar.bz2
>>> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-build-2.0-m12.zip
>>>
>>> See also
>>>
>>> http://boost.org/boost-build2/
>>>
>> [snip]
>> After downloading both the *.bz2 and the *.zip files, I tried both
>> bunzip2 on the *.bz2 file and unzip on the *.zip file; however,
>> neither worked. Both commands indicated the files were not
>> bzip2 or zip, respectively.
>
> However, I had no problem with the http://prdownloads*.bz2.
>
The problem is how I interpreted the links on:

   http://boost.org/boost-build2/

I should have just clicked on them instead of download
from them. OTOH, with the nightly build links, downloading
works. This is a bit confusing since both the Download:
and Nightly Build: links appear the same.


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