On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote: >> What if the automated test suite held a copy of what it tested with. >> Candidate releases could be as simple as giving a URL to download the build >> artifact. >> > > Not a bad idea.
I have suggested this a long time ago, but the problem is that the auto tester machines naturally only build a single platforms each, thus making packaging a bit more annoying if we want to stick to the »huge single ZIP« approach. Aggregating the results shouldn't exactly be hard, but we'd also need a solid script to do that *hint, hint*. Nevertheless, providing nightly snapshots for users to download would be really helpful for users who don't want to go through the hassles of building DMD/druntime/Phobos on their own, but still want to test new features or check for regressions. Several (most?) high-profile open source projects do this. Besides that, please consider to number beta releases consecutively (as in dmd-2.060-beta1.zip), incrementing the version on each and every change (i.e. never touch the old archives). While generally helpful for reducing confusion, this comes in handy particularly when new regressions is introduced during the beta period. David _______________________________________________ dmd-beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
