Suggestion for future betas: Packages

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-08-02 21:52, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know it takes more time to build APT and RPM packages and such, but it
> makes things significantly easier for beta testers than the current
> approach where they have to install the beta to some isolated
> environment by hand.
>
> I think providing packages would also make more people willing to
> actually participate in the first place.
>

You could use DVM. It has not direct support for installing beta 
releases but you can manually download and install it into DVM. Not the 
best solution but it at least allows you do easily change between the 
beta release and a stable release.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg