State of Play

[Walter Bright]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> So what about the following counterargument: "even if nightly builds
> were made available, how can we be sure that enough people are using
> them to sufficiently test them?"  OK, sure, if not many people are
> using the nightly builds, then there wouldn't be much benefit.  But it
> does seem to work out fine for a lot of projects.  And with a proper
> SCM set up which you commit to daily, there's virtually no work on
> your part.  You just commit, and everyone else can download and
> compile.

I believe that people downloading half-baked works in progress and then 
finding problems I already know about and am fixing is probably not more 
productive.