On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 20:09, Stefan Sperling wrote: > >> Just upgrade to the latest snapshot, and then compile from source. >> Trying to do anything else is a waste of time. > > Compiling is a waste of time. Are you changing the source? No? Then > you don't need to build it.
...particularly since the snapshots often contain work-in-progress. If you instantly rebuild, then you can't provide any real feedback on those changes. (If you're wonder how you can provide feedback on fixes that you don't know about, it's often *more* important to get testing of a fix on the 99% that it *shouldn't* affect than on the 1% that it fixes. If you run a snapshot and it breaks, let us know. If you immediately rebuild, then, well, *yawn*) Philip Guenther
