On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Sean Cavanaugh <worksonmymach...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/3/2012 1:25 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >> >> On 1/3/2012 10:55 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: >>> >>> On 03-01-2012 19:47, Walter Bright wrote: >>>> >>>> On 1/3/2012 6:49 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Perhaps some kind of experimental releases would be better. It could >>>>> help >>>>> getting new features out to the community (and thus tested) faster. >>>> >>>> >>>> We call them betas <g>. >>>> >>>> But anyone can pull the latest from github and use it, many do. >>> >>> >>> That's not very practical for most users. Some kind of >>> ready-to-download builds >>> would be much better. As others suggested, the auto-tester publishing >>> builds for >>> download would be ideal. >> >> >> Using a nightly build is not very practical for most users, either, >> probably the same group. > > > Well there is always the google (and mozilla) route of force-feeding the > latest binaries to everyone :)
They can get away with that because their users don't really care about versions. As long as Chrome starts and browses when I want it to, I don't care whether Google pushes updates out behind my back. Development tools are a different game because versions introduce breaking changes and silently changing versions will just create a horde of angry developers.