[Dev] Do we need developer distributions?

[John Anderson]

All I care about is the ability to /easily/ get recent developer builds 
without having to wait for long compiles. So a short description of how 
to easily get it (via CVS or download) and short simple instructions on 
"make install" would work for me as long as the "make" didn't take a 
long time.

Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> Spurred by my abysmal experiences at trying to download and install 
> Eclipse (couldn't figure out what I needed to download, how to find 
> the plugin I needed, what documentation I needed to download and how 
> to install plugins), I would really like to make Chandler download a 
> simple task.
>
> Right now if you go to download Chandler you are faced with a lot of 
> options. I don't think we need all those options, but please let me 
> know if you disagree.
>
> Can we get rid of developer releases?
>
> Can we get rid of developer milestones?
>
> Can we get rid of developer continuous builds?
>
> If you answered NO to any of those, why? You can always pull the 
> source from CVS by date or tag, and when you do the build it will pull 
> the corresponding source or binary tarballs (depending on whether you 
> do full build or make install).
>
> Note that I am fine if the tinderbox still creates continuous 
> developer (debug) builds and distributions and runs unit tests. But I 
> just don't see the need to put these bits available anywhere.
>
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