[packages/boost] future todo: use .7z download

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:25:29PM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> On 20.06.2016 22:05, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 08:01:33PM +0200, glen wrote:
> >>commit aaeb56b0e6b7f2a6f5e636a50ab7e67f1c047aff
> >>Author: Elan Ruusamäe <glen at delfi.ee>
> >>Date:   Mon Jun 20 21:01:12 2016 +0300
> >>
> >>     future todo: use .7z download
> >.7z (and .zip) boost archives are targeted to Windows (with CRLF line
> >endings inside).
> 
> there .7z is smaller than .bz2, and if the only difference is EOL-style, 
> then gcc doesn't mind source file encoding...

I don't know, if the only.

But CRs in headers and (at least part of) docs make binary packages
bigger.
(Yes, they could be stripped etc. at build time - but 12% smaller source
package is unlikely worth complicating build process)


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