Subject: [boost] name of boost 1.56 tarball
From: Menelaos Karavelas (menelaos.karavelas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-29 10:11:48
Hello.
Unlike previous versions which are named with underscores only, the
boost 1.56 b1 tarball is named boost-1_56_0_b1.{zip, tar.gz, tar.bz, 7z}.
Unpacking the tarball creates a boost-1_56_0_b1 directory instead of the
expected one boost_1_56_0_b1
See also:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.56.0.beta.1/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.55.0/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.54.0/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.53.0/
(older versions also follow the underscore filename pattern).
Is there any particular reason for doing this?
I suspect that it might cause problems to scripts looking for a specific
pattern for the boost tar file and/or directory.
All the best,
- m.