State of Play

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 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.

It's not the bugs that you know about that cause problems for other people!