From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: Davidson, Robert <robdavid@amazon.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Nightly builds
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:32:27 -0500
Message-ID: <442402FB.2050102@dunslane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060324132144.GI90527@pervasive.com>
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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.
cheers
andrew
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