From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-29 07:08:16
on Fri Aug 29 2008, Gennaro Prota <gennaro.prota-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> John Maddock wrote:
>> However, once a library has matured to the point that the author
>> would like it to become an official part of Boost, then they ask for
>> a formal review of the code
>> (http://www.boost.org/development/submissions.html), and generally
>> also make a zip file available for download from the vault (just
>> because it's more convenient for potential reviewers that way).
>
> Just throwing out an idea: if (and I said "if" :-)) we agree to have
> the sandbox as the one place for "incubation", would it be possible,
> given the current Boost infrastructure, to provide something like
> SourceForge's "Download GNU tarball" link?
Do you mean, a way to download a .zip snapshot of any given subdirectory
of the sandbox?
It's certainly possible. Probably it should be a Trac plugin. Hmm, I
wonder if such a plugin exists already.
-- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com