On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:32:45PM -0400, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj> wrote:
>
> On 8 June 2015 at 17:03, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's not about the 5 minutes of compile time, it's about the
> signalling.
>
> Just *when* is git ready for testing? You don't know from the outside.
>
> I do lurk here a lot and still am unsure quite often.
>
> Even simply releasing an alpha *tarball* would be useful enough. What
> is needed is the signal to test, rather than a fully-built package.
>
>
> I can see that, and can absolutely get behind the idea of a nightly being
> flagged as an alpha, since it should involve next to no developer time.
>
>
>
> Nightly where? This is an international community.
The daily snapshot tarballs are built in a way to minimize the number of
development tools required:
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/snapshot/dev/
These would be easier to use than pulling from git.
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