On 06/06/2015 07:33 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj> wrote:
>> To play devil's advocate for a moment, is there anyone who would genuinely
>> be prepared to download and install an alpha release who would not already
>> have downloaded one of the nightlies? I only ask because I assume that
>> releasing
>> an alpha is not zero-developer-cost and I don't believe
>> that
>> there's a large
>> number of people who would be happy to install something that's described as
>> being buggy and subject to change but are put off by having to type
>> "configure" and "make".
Yes, me and everyone like me in feature set.
Compiling takes time, time that does not need to be spent. If I can push
an alpha into a container and start testing, I will do so. If I have to:
git pull; configure --prefix; make -j8 install
Then I will likely move on to other things because my time (nor is any
other's on this list) is not free.
If you add into this a test harness that I can execute from the alpha
release (or another package) that allows me to instant report via
buildfarm or just email a tarball to -hackers that is even better.
I know that I am not taking everything into account here but remember
that most of our users are not -hackers. They are practitioners and a
lot of them would love to help but just can't because a lot of the
infrastructure has never been built and -hackers think like -hackers.
Sincerely,
JD
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