Re: Nightly builds

I now have two minor bugs for which patches exist.

I am game to write up some better instructions for installing mingw to compile postgresql on Windows if there are any notes on which packages need to be installed. I have successfully compiled and installed on Linux.

If there were a place to download patches, this would allow moderately adventurous Windows users to roll their own and avoid the overhead of nightly Windows builds.

Best Regards,

Robert Davidson

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 6:45 AM
To: Andrew Dunstan
Cc: Davidson, Robert; Tom Lane; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Nightly builds

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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