Re: Nightly CVS tarballs

|--==> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: Jeff> Well, I would like to see the nightly cvs tarballs and Jeff> here's why. SJT> OK, that's two in favor. Jeff> Being able to download a tarred up cvs snapshot would, in Jeff> most cases, save me a lot of trouble. SJT> Well, if Steve Y wants to go ahead and take responsibility for it, I SJT> guess I'll withdraw my opposition for 21.5 and the packages. 21.4 is SJT> still a no-no for the reasons given. OK, I'll see what I can come up with. SJT> Two suggestions: SJT> 1. Provide a daily cvs diff in case the current day is broken. Do you mean, a diff against the previous day? Easily doable, but is it necessary? I don't know about other developers, but if I didn't have access to CVS for whatever reason I'd be keeping a working backup. SJT> 2. Provide a diff against r21-5-latest-beta. Same as above. People who hack from a nightly CVS tarball have to realise that the code they have could be up to 24 hours out of date and need to make allowances for that. Such as, if the current day is broken, wait until the next day's tarball is released. (Of course, they are quite welcome to fix the breakage.) Is that too harsh? I'm not dismissing your suggestions, Steve (T), just digging for more information. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|