[Dev] Propose getting rid of developer release

Andi Vajda vajda at osafoundation.org
Tue Nov 29 14:15:04 PST 2005


> Today almost nobody runs the debug version -- I suspect mostly because it's 
> slower. On Windows it's awkward to setup cygwin for most users just to do a 
> build. On Mac you also have to install the developer disks, which some people 
> don't want to do. Then you have to wait forever while the build runs -- or 
> fails like it did over the weekend. If we make everyone jump over all these 
> hurdles to run the debug version, even fewer people will run it and we'll 
> miss bugs. Instead, I think we need to make the debug version easier to run 
> (and not too slow), not harder to run.

I hardly ever run the debug version not because it is too hard but because I 
don't see the need. The only time I do, is when I want python built with 
--with-pydebug turned on to help me debug C memory bugs I introduce when I use 
the python C api.

As for running a debug version if Chandler, it is as easy as:
   - checkout chandler sources
   - make DEBUG=1 install
You do not need to do a full debug build to run a debug build.

Andi..



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