Yes, assuming we can get the builds working smoothly, it would be really great to offer stable and unstable binaries right on the main downloads page.
— John On Feb 4, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Eric Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 12:35:19 UTC-6, Sung Soo Kim wrote: > I think it would be a good idea to provide pre-release version as a binary. A > simple overnight automatic build system can be used to upload the most recent > pre-release version to the website easily, weekly (or even daily) basis > (though must be after success of automatic testing of the core and packages, > of course), so that new comers don't have to get into 'compiling' from the > source codes. Compiling IS a major barrier. > > This exists at http://status.julialang.org/, but it really should be visible > from the http://julialang.org/downloads/ page (and perhaps have matching > styling).
