On Feb 5, 2014, at 5:06 , Ian Hinder <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 Feb 2014, at 06:22, Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Feb 4, 2014, at 23:31 , Frank Loeffler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:39:23PM -0500, Erik Schnetter wrote: >>>> I have implemented option 4, since it is the only one that works with our >>>> current infrastructure (Cactus and GetComponents). >>> >>> This now included Boost, a thorn with a source size alone of half a >>> Gigabyte. I don't think this was really intended, at least not at this >>> point where the complete source is still included in the thorn. >> >> I added download lines for all thorns mentioned in our thorn list. >> >> The compressed source code itself has only about 70 MByte. The remainder is >> git repository "overhead", i.e. previous Boost versions. Maybe cleaning the >> git repository would help? > > Hi, > > As far as I remember, Boost is not part of the ET, as it hasn't yet been > agreed that it should be added, or in what form (maybe I missed it?). There > is a ticket about this, but no conclusion about whether the vote happened or > not (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1410). The minutes of the 8th > August meeting do not mention it. I think the discussion started briefly at > the end of a later telecon but there was not enough time, and it hasn't been > brought up again. Specifically, I think the major objection to Boost is its > size, which can be ameliorated by changing the way the repository is > structured, or the way that external thorns work (e.g. downloading the > library tarball when needed, rather than on checkout). The toolkit is only > supposed to contain components which have been agreed on. Since Boost is not > yet (as far as I know) part of the toolkit, I don't think it should be > downloaded with the toolkit by default. It should be commented out in the > thornlist, so that users can add it back in if they want, until we agree on > whether it should be included, and in what form.
I have copied the Boost thorn into an svn repository, which is significantly smaller. Should we keep this in the ET thorn list, remove it, download it by default...? -erik -- Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/eschnetter/ My email is as private as my paper mail. I therefore support encrypting and signing email messages. Get my PGP key from http://pgp.mit.edu/.
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