I like the PPA idea. installing (and later updating to) bleeding edge blender would be as easy as: `sudo add-apt-repository apt:blender/whatever`
package/update-managers will take care of the rest. (on a daily basis, if setup to do so) maybe the buildbot could upload to a blender-nightly ppa? cheers, lmg On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:27 PM, pete larabell <xgl.asyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > yup > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Knapp <magick.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:59 PM, pete larabell <xgl.asyl...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I spoke with the ubuntu people, it is going to be in 11.10 in October. >>> It had to do with ubuntu using debian packages and the packages were >>> build for the OS when blender 2.56 was still obviously beta and they >>> don't put beta as a release.... >>> >>> 2.57 release will be in 11.10 >> >> >> 11.10 = 2011.October (just to be clear about that number). Ubuntu is always >> year and then 4 or 10 month that goes with their release cycle. >> >> -- >> Douglas E Knapp >> >> Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies >> with open source software! >> http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php >> >> Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer: >> http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm >> Please link to me and trade links with me! >> >> Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project. >> http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page >> http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers