Add links to GitHub downloads

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, html
Domain
documentation, release

Research direction

Start with the Boost 1.81.0 release notes page and inspect the Downloads section and the website source that generates or contains it. Add GitHub release links for Boost 1.81.0 onward below each downloads table, then verify the displayed links point to the corresponding GitHub release pages.

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Description

It would be nice to add GitHub download links in release notes starting with Boost 1.81.0.

For example, on 1.81.0 release notes page, add a text like "Source packages with git layout are available on GitHub." below the downloads table in the Downloads section.

The archives on GitHub are useful for people using Boost in CMake. They lack the unified boost include directory and require the user to either recreate it by running b2 headers or specify library include directories in the compiler command line (which is what CMake does).

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