Re: [Boost-users] Any special differences between unix and windows source code packages?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Any special differences between unix and windows source code packages?
From: Kerry, Richard (richard.kerry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-04 05:36:02

And noting of course that .tar.bz2 and .tag.gz are not Unix-family platform specific.
Tools for handling them are available on Windows.  They tend to provide better compression than .zip so I use them (on Windows) whenever available.

Richard Kerry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost-users 
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Igor R
> Sent: 04 July 2013 10:28
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Any special differences between 
> unix and windows source code packages?
> 
> 
> >    I would like to know are there any differences (other 
> than compression
> > types) between the unix platform source code package 
> (.tar.bz2, tar.gz) and
> > windows platform ones (.7z, .zip) ?
> > Platform File
> > unix boost_1_54_0.tar.bz2
> > boost_1_54_0.tar.gz
> > windows boost_1_54_0.7z
> > boost_1_54_0.zip
> 
> 
> The code is identical in all the archives. Maybe only 
> line-breaks differ.
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