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: 2013-07-05 04:34:19

Fair enough.  It's a while since I downloaded Boost.

I had in mind some other systems I use where multiple formats are available (not including 7z) and the tar.* formats are available and smaller than .zip.

Regards,

Richard.

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From: Boost-users [boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] on behalf of Daniel James [daniel_at_[hidden]]
Sent: 04 July 2013 19:13
To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Any special differences between unix and windows source code packages?

On 4 July 2013 10:36, Kerry, Richard <richard.kerry_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> 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.

The .7z file is the smallest download.
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