Thread: Nightly builds (was: [SQL] Function Parameters in GROUP BY clause cause errors)
Nightly builds (was: [SQL] Function Parameters in GROUP BY clause cause errors)
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"Jim C. Nasby"
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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 compilefrom source, but after looking at the mingw page was too intimidated by figuring out what to download to try compilingsource. 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... -- 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
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 compilefrom source, but after looking at the mingw page was too intimidated by figuring out what to download to try compilingsource. >> >> > >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
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