| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion |
| Date: | 2004-05-19 18:02:23 |
| Message-ID: | 200405191802.i4JI2NF21838@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 12:55, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > > The main downside of testing a snapshot, as I see it, is that the
> > > snapshot is virtually certain not to be initdb-compatible with either
> > > the previous release or the upcoming one. Mini-releases would have
> > > that problem too, and so I don't really see what they add in terms of
> > > testability.
> >
> > The main purpose of mini-releases would be to make testing more accessable to
> > newbies who find anon-CVS intimidating.
> >
>
> FWIW we already do nightly tarballs that people can use to build from if
> they want...
>
> What might be handy is an alpha build of the win32 version once the
> folks developing it feel it's stable enough to merit such a thing...
The Win32 project page already has nightly Win32 builds courtesy of
Magnus.
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