In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scott G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Thanks. I'll d/l it and try it on my home machine. What's this about
>'nightlies' I see here? Are there new builds released every day? If so, why
>aren't they called 'dailies'?
A very good question, I think it's traditional, when they first started doing
the daily builds they occured at night, now they seem to be built almost
continually.
> And how bleeding edge must one be to install
>each new nightly as it comes out? After all, you know how they recognize
>pioneers.
They're very bleeding edge, letting you try out the code checked in during the
day. The Milestone builds are tested before release, whereas the nightlies are
not. So a rogue bug caused by checkins can sometimes wreck havoc with your
bookmarks or profile (though they've never had any other harmful effect on my
machines - Linux, NT4, Win95). Occasionally they won't run at all.
ian.
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