Dear developers,

Can we provide daily snapshots for 1.4.x, 1.5.x, especially under
windows? This will allow more active testing for the new version.
(Compare between "overwrite your lyx.exe with http://.../lyx.exe";,
with 5+ hours compiling.)

A workable scenario (that works for me) may be something like this:
1. a windows machine (or a virtual machine) with cygwin/sshd-server
set up, and with all the compilers and tools.
2. a crontab from linux, that ssh (without password) to the windows
machine every day, runs a batch file under windows that,
  -- svn update, if there is something new,
  -- compile
  -- scp lyx.exe to linux
  -- post to http://www.devel.lyx.org/dailysnapshot

One reason for this call is that my own windows machine is pretty weak
and takes a long time to compile lyx. It would be nice to have some
spare machine to do this for me, and for everyone else.

Cheers,
Bo

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