SourceForge has been controversial in the last month due to them bundling malware and other dubious incidents [0] [1]. I would recommend against running some random executable from that site! That said, there is a Github project [2] with its main boost repository, from which you can build a local Boost yourself. I did this a few month ago, as I not want to download Boost from SourceForge at all. A word of caution: you have to recursively clone a lot of repositories; I think in the end it's in the 1G-2G following the steps outlined in the docs. Also note that the boost repository's "Releases" [3] are not releases that are usable or from which you can build a local Boost. I learned that the hard way, and had to ask on IRC about that. Moving forward, I would love to see improvements in the distribution process. I would love the main landing page [4] to be served over https, to have checksums, or even signed releases. And I would love Boost to move off of SourceForge in the long term. Or better as fast as possible. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9623142 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9692033 [2] https://github.com/boostorg [3] https://github.com/boostorg/boost/releases [4] http://www.boost.org/users/download/ On 02/05/2016 08:37 PM, Dan Bloomquist wrote:
I followed the link form boost.org and then through sourceforge. But sourceforge directed me to: http://downloadbud.com/?adprovider=sourceforge_fwint&source=fw36_300x250-download-display-6352064
The link is an executable! I've never heard of 'downloadbud'. Not a big deal for now, I'm running with 1.58. But I'd like to get the latest of spirit x3 before I ask questions on the spirit list that may not need asking. Is there another source for boost? Or, is this executable actually a safe extractor? Sourceforge handing over an exe when it should be be a package seems just wrong...
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