[Dev] Do we need developer distributions?

[Heikki Toivonen]

John Anderson wrote:
> 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.

The CVS way and make install have to download more files, so it takes a 
little longer (but you'd then be able to do CVS diffs etc.) For example, 
on Windows, you'd need to download about twice as much (cvs checkout, 
make install DEBUG=1 vs download developer distribution).

Would these kind of instructions work?


CVS pull by tag:

cvs -z3 checkout -r <tag, i.e. CHANDLER_0_4_01> chandler-python

or CVS pull by date:

cvs -z3 checkout -D'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' chandler-python


followed by the usual

cd chandler
make install DEBUG=1

-- 
   Heikki Toivonen

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