On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Mon, 31 May 2010, Tom Lane wrote: >> >> > I find myself entirely unimpressed by proposals to make releases >> > according to some rigid schedule that takes no account of whether >> > packaging manpower is actually available. >> >> How many beta testers out there *rely* on a package to do their testing? >> I'm not saying don't try and get packages in place, I'm just saying it >> shouldn't be a requirement to stamp code BETA and create a tar ball ...
My guess would be "most of them". Unlike alphas where most probably just work off a tree - or so it seems. That's obviously going to be very platform dependent. > Well, they can just grab nightly snapshots and test, right? I don't > think a beta is fundamentally different from a nightly snapshot, > source-code wise. Source-code wise, no, it's not - except that it's a well defined point in time, so it's easier to report bugs against, and to search for known bugs against. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
