Re: [dev] Re: [tools-tinderbox] Moving to bost 1.3?

Hi Thorsten,

Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> [Cc to tinderbox removed]
> 
> Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
>> As an additional note, it has been suggested to not commit the
>> boost*.tar.gz to boost/download, but make it a pre-requisite which needs
>> to be downloaded before building. This would (for 1.39) save >50M in the
>> repository for every version ever committed there.
>> Opinions on this plan are also welcome.
>>
> Hi Frank,
> 
> hm - in the light of heavy-weight commits like the .sdf one, ain't
> this just a micro-optimisation? Unless such stuff gets downloaded
> automagically, it's a big nuisance in the already-full-of-nuisances
> ooo build experience. 
> 
> Or invent a nice solution that does auto-downloads, and switch a few
> other huge external libs to that (like icu). ;)

Actually, I would love that.

Heiner