[2003-02-04] Beman Dawes wrote: >At 05:52 PM 2/4/2003, Rene Rivera wrote: > > >In a bout of cleaning, and wanting to learn about SourceForge file > >distribution... I put all the historical releases of Boost, and the >current > >also, in the SourceForge files distribution system. > >Thanks! Looks great! I was wondering who added the other releases and the >bjam files:-) > > > Also available now are > >bzip2 versions for those interested in smaller downloads. For details >see: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586 > >I'll add bz2 files to future releases. Could you send me a copy of the >script or command you used? My knowledge of bzip2 is exactly zero, except >that I do see cygwin has supplied a version for my Windows box. > >Did you run the earlier ones with UNIX line endings? > >The .bz2 files are so much smaller than the .zip that I wouldn't be >surprised if we get asked to also supply the untranslated line ending files >in the .bz2 format. We'd need to come up with a distinctive naming >convention.
The line endings on the bz2 files are exactly what they are in the gz files. The reason is that I took the gz files and recompressed them directly with bzip2. This is the command that I used: gunzip -c file.tar.gz | bzip2 > file.tar.bz2 > >With this the historical releases that usually are available on the > >boost.sourceforge.net/release, are no longer. Now only the latest release > > >is available there. > >I've also been trying out the SourceForge release system with good results. >It's really amazing how much easier it all became after they improved their >docs. > >Starting with the 1.30.0 release, the plan is to only make the SourceForge >file list the only download source. I've already updated more/download.html >in CVS. Ah, good, I was going to suggest we add a link to the SourceForge downloads :-) >Thanks again, You're welcome. -- grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 102708583@icq _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost