On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqlad...@geoff.dj> wrote: > To play devil's advocate for a moment, is there anyone who would genuinely > be prepared to download and install an alpha release who would not already > have downloaded one of the nightlies? I only ask because I assume that > releasing > an alpha is not zero-developer-cost and I don't believe > that > there's a large > number of people who would be happy to install something that's described as > being buggy and subject to change but are put off by having to type > "configure" and "make".
This is pretty much why Peter Eisentraut gave up on doing alphas after the 9.1 cycle. Admittedly, what is being proposed here is somewhat different. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
