X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A969DC804 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:45:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26914-09 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:45:35 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from noel.decibel.org (noel.decibel.org [67.100.216.10]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C307F9DCDA7 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:45:27 -0400 (AST) Received: by noel.decibel.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 928FF56435; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:45:30 -0600 (CST) Received: (hashcash-sendmail, from uid 1001); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:45:29 -0600 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:45:29 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Andrew Dunstan Cc: "Davidson, Robert" , Tom Lane , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Nightly builds Message-ID: <20060324144529.GO90527@pervasive.com> References: <8333C841129E074E9F83FC80676BA76E405230@exchg-sea3-03.ant.amazon.com> <20060324132144.GI90527@pervasive.com> <442402FB.2050102@dunslane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <442402FB.2050102@dunslane.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Hashcash: 1:20:060324:andrew@dunslane.net::uoX1XfBboVtPHvxE:000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000006egs X-Hashcash: 1:20:060324:robdavid@amazon.com::daXDsp5vBFcL4beJ:000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000003c6x X-Hashcash: 1:20:060324:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us::IIt360MtOciSu/qL:00000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000002M5S X-Hashcash: 1:20:060324:pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org::xwS/htjoQotx7alS:000000000 0000000000000000000000001W0g X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.108 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.108] X-Spam-Score: 0.108 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/1043 X-Sequence-Number: 81441 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. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461