[Asterisk-Dev] Proposal: Nightly builds

[Hendrik Visage]

On 4/13/05, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:26:59PM +0200, Stefan Gofferje wrote:
> > Hi Folks!
> >
> > I would like to propose something I got to like very much from other
> > projects: nightly builds.
> > Not everybody likes CVS too much as CVS definitely is more kinda
> > developer than an end-user tool.
> > I think it would be great if somebody at Digium puts up a little script
> > which takes the current stable and the current head branch and puts them
> > into tar.gz files on ftp.digium.com (or whereever) at a fixed time each
> > day/night.
> > So, people can get the latest versions in a little more convinient way.
> 
> For which platform exactly? Which libraries collection? Mozilla and
> OpenOffice have relatively few external dependencies. Asterisk, OTOH,
> tends to have quite a few external dependencies. So the binary build
> will only be good for a specific combination of libraries.

I didn't noticed any reference to binary packages, but rather the CVS
source to be put in a tarball....