From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-11 08:36:23
David Abrahams wrote:
>> A request: For some of us behind the firewall, can a nightly archive
>> of HEAD be made available?
>
> Boost Consulting has one, but we need to update the process to get the
> source from the new SVN repository instead of CVS.
>
>> I need ASIO, INTERPROCESS and INTRUSIVE to try out a few things,
>> this being not part of current BOOST release, there is no other way
>> I am aware of to get those librarues.
>
> What kind of crazy firewall lets you browse the web via http but won't
> let you do an svn checkout using the same http protocol?
It's not the "same". SVN client uses some additional request types (part of
web-DAV, or some such), and certain network administrators ban those,
lest something bad happens :-/
- Volodya