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: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-04 12:54:42

On Jul 4, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Igor R <boost.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2013, at 5:50 AM, lizy10b <lizy10b_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>    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.

That is correct. The contents of the files are the same.
The .7z and .zip files have windows line endings (CRLF), and 
the .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files have unix line endings (LF).

-- Marshall

Marshall Clow     Idio Software   <mailto:mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>

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