On 9/25/14, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Blake, > >> I always use the latest git version, and not any official release, >> because it often contains corrections that are important to me. > > Congratulations, you're a "developer" and have to suffer all their > tribulations. :-) A regular, nightly?, tarball produced from git with > `make distcheck' would package up a ./configure so that you could use it > and not git and need less installed/downloaded. But I don't know if one > exists, or if anyone has the time to set it up as a contribution.
This existed until the move from CVS to git. (The last one produced still lives at http://groff.ffii.org/groff/devel/, dated 28-Jan-2014.) Does whatever script created these daily tarballs from CVS require major reconstruction to use git to do the same thing? It does seem there's a bit of a gulf between "user who wants to build from the latest source" and "developer."