Andre Poenitz wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:38:29PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
>> Andre Poenitz wrote:
>> 
>> > Has anybody changed anything related to compression in, say, the two
>> > years leading to 1.5.0rc2?
>> 
>> Yes. gzstream has been replaced by some boost thing.
> 
> Do you remember when approximately?

No. svn is your friend.

>> IIRC the boost thing supports more compression formats than gzip.
> 
> I guess it would have been sufficient if it did gzip properly *sigh*
> 
> <obrant>Is there a single thing in boost that really _works_?</obrant>

regex and the new math stuff from John Maddock for example. Given the high
aims of boost it is really a pity that it also contains some really buggy
stuff.


Georg

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