On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Norman Gray wrote:
> Having said that, for software I've downloaded, I've never considered
> picking up a nightly build tarball -- I've always stick to release
> versions. Nightly build tarballs are good PR, and are important for
AST will probably be a special case since people want the newest features
for testing but they want to build without using the Starlink starconf.
> that reason, but I can't actually think of anyone who'd want a
> nightly-build tarball who wouldn't be happier with a CVS checkout. In
> other words, I'm not sure it's worth investing any great effort in
> distributing the nightly-builds, but we are possibly a bit overdue in
> distributing release versions. Not that I'm suggesting that's
> trivial....
>
It's definitely time for a real bona fide new Starlink release.
Brian: How's the HDS64 bug fixing coming along? Please?
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Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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