Re: Nightly builds

["Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:32:27AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 05:30:28AM -0800, Davidson, Robert wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>How amazing is that? I call it a night and come back to find that a bug 
> >>has been identified and patched while I sleep.
> >>
> >>When will it appear in the binaries (I see that the release version is 
> >>still 8.1.3)? I thought about trying to compile from source, but after 
> >>looking at the mingw page was too intimidated by figuring out what to 
> >>download to try compiling source.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >We generally don't worry about point releases too much unless there's a
> >pretty serious bug, so it'll probably take a while.
> >
> >Unfortunately I don't know of anyone building nightly binaries. This is
> >something we should think about doing, especially for windows...
> > 
> >
> 
> What for? The only binaries we should be letting out are for declared 
> releases. If the bug is serious enough to warrant cutting a generally 
> distributed binary for, it's worth making a release for, IMNSHO. The 
> Windows packaging team usually follow up a release with a package very 
> quickly indeed.

In this case, my guess is that this bugfix isn't important enough to
push a release. If there was a nightly build, the bug reporter could use
that for development until an official release came out.

The only reason I even suggested this is because setting up a windows
build environment is substantially more complicated than building on
unix. If he was on unix, he could easily just cvs up on the appropriate
branch and build it himself.
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