On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj> wrote:
> To play devil's advocate for a moment, is there anyone who would genuinely
> be prepared to download and install an alpha release who would not already
> have downloaded one of the nightlies? I only ask because I assume that
> releasing
> an alpha is not zero-developer-cost and I don't believe
> that
> there's a large
> number of people who would be happy to install something that's described as
> being buggy and subject to change but are put off by having to type
> "configure" and "make".
This is pretty much why Peter Eisentraut gave up on doing alphas after
the 9.1 cycle.
Admittedly, what is being proposed here is somewhat different.
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