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".
I fit into that category and I would guess there would be others as well. Having system packages available via an "apt-get install ..." lowers the bar significantly to try things out. As an example, I installed the 9.4 beta as soon as it was available to run a smoke test and try out some of the new jsonb features. I'll be doing the same with a 9.5 alpha/beta (or whatever it's called), for both similar testing and to try out UPSERT. It's much easier to work into dev/test setups if there are system packages as it's just a config change to an existing script. Building from source would require a whole new workflow that I don't have time to incorporate. > Further, it seems to me that the number of people who won't roll their own > who are useful as bug-finders is even smaller. That's probably true but they definitely won't find any bugs if they don't test at all. If it's possible to have automated packaging, even for just a subset of platforms, I think that'd be useful. Regards, -- Sehrope Sarkuni Founder & CEO | JackDB, Inc. | https://www.jackdb.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
