Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 05:30:28AM -0800, Davidson, Robert wrote:
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>>How amazing is that? I call it a night and come back to find that a bug has been identified and patched while I
sleep.
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>>When will it appear in the binaries (I see that the release version is still 8.1.3)? I thought about trying to
compilefrom source, but after looking at the mingw page was too intimidated by figuring out what to download to try
compilingsource.
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>We generally don't worry about point releases too much unless there's a
>pretty serious bug, so it'll probably take a while.
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>Unfortunately I don't know of anyone building nightly binaries. This is
>something we should think about doing, especially for windows...
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What for? The only binaries we should be letting out are for declared
releases. If the bug is serious enough to warrant cutting a generally
distributed binary for, it's worth making a release for, IMNSHO. The
Windows packaging team usually follow up a release with a package very
quickly indeed.
cheers
andrew