On 20.11.2011 23:23, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
Peter Kümmel<[email protected]>  writes:

| Currently we have 4800 files in trunk.
| 1500 file are boost headers. These 1500
| files we never touch, but we check them out,
| check them for changes, and so on.

so?

adding or removing files on a boost update, setting
the eol-sytle property.


| It is simple to replace the files with one tar.gz
| which will be extracted while the autogen.sh or cmake run.

| What do you think about replacing boost/boost
| by boost/boost.tar.gz and attached patch?

I think it makes life harder.


The patch wasn't hard.

And what you do gain by this added complexity?

I have to move around 1500 files less.

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