On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 07:58:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
* Not a single person need to have all different platforms to
create a release
We'll need to move to building linux distribution specific build
to fix issues with shared library dependencies, so it's even more
platforms.
* We don't need to rely on someone else to build packages for a
given platform. He/she may be away for a few days and suddenly
we can't get a release for a given platform
Automation is definitely a good solution.
* It's reproducible. We're creating the release on the same
machines every time
I think a good solution would be to prepare clean virtualbox
images that are used for building.