Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 12:55, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Tom,
> > 
> > > The main downside of testing a snapshot, as I see it, is that the
> > > snapshot is virtually certain not to be initdb-compatible with either
> > > the previous release or the upcoming one.  Mini-releases would have
> > > that problem too, and so I don't really see what they add in terms of
> > > testability.
> > 
> > The main purpose of mini-releases would be to make testing more accessable to 
> > newbies who find anon-CVS intimidating.    
> > 
> 
> FWIW we already do nightly tarballs that people can use to build from if
> they want...
> 
> What might be handy is an alpha build of the win32 version once the
> folks developing it feel it's stable enough to merit such a thing...

The Win32 project page already has nightly Win32 builds courtesy of
Magnus.

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