Re: [Boost-users] Downloading the CVS version of Boost

From: Douglas Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-12 09:46:21

On Thursday 11 December 2003 11:50 pm, Scott Meyers wrote:
> > There are real advantages to the CVS version of Boost in general and
> > Filesystem in particular: lots of improvements and bug fixes, plus better
> > "getting started" documentation and procedures.
>
> I'd like to give the CVS version a try, but I'm not sure how to do it.  I
> was hoping I could just download a zip or tar file or something, but that
> seems not to be the case.  Boost mentions access via CVS client or web
> browser.  Because I'm lazy and don't feel like learning more new software
> right now (i.e., a CVS client), I tried the web browser approach, but I
> don't know what to do once I get to
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost/ to download the
> libraries.  Am I just overlooking something really obvious?

There's a tarball of Boost CVS here (built hourly, I think):
        http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost.tar.bz2

        Doug