That is essentially the same as using the most recent source, but since they are widely used, some features are enabled only once they have been stable for a while.
-viral On Saturday, May 31, 2014 4:04:18 PM UTC+5:30, Job van der Zwan wrote: > > Wow, that looks like it was a massive effort! > > BTW, I subscribed to the nightly build PPA, isn't that equal to building > from the most recent source? > > On Friday, 30 May 2014 21:04:26 UTC+2, Elliot Saba wrote: >> >> This would be the static compilation work that was done for 0.3 by >> everyone in this issue <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/4898>. >> It's been available for source-built copies of julia for quite some time, >> but was only enabled on binary builds recently. >> -E >> >> >> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Job van der Zwan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Just curious what changed under the hood and who to thank for this >>> improvement? :) >>> >> >>
