Dennis Kaarsemaker <den...@kaarsemaker.net> writes: > On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 23:18 -0500, Jeff King wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:11:11PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> > > So I dunno. I could really go either way on it. Feel free to drop it, or >> > > even move it into a separate topic to be cooked longer. >> > >> > If it were 5 years ago, it would have been different, but I do not >> > think cooking it longer in 'next' would smoke out breakages in >> > obscure scripts any longer. Git is used by too many people who have >> > never seen its source these days. >> >> Yeah, I have noticed that, too. I wonder if it would be interesting to >> cut "weeklies" or something of "master" or even "next" that people could >> install with a single click. >> >> Of course it's not like we have a binary installer in the first place, >> so I guess that's a prerequisite. > > I provide daily[*] snapshots of git's master and next tree as packages > for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and CentOS on launchpad and SuSE's > openbuildservice. If there's sufficient interest in this (I know of > only a few users), I can try to put more effort into this.
That sounds handy for people who do not build from the source themselves. Christian, perhaps rev-news can help advertising Dennis's effort to recruit like-minded souls?
