The idea works well from the user perspective as long as a new tarball gets generated every time a patch gets generated. This may work if the Trinity server(s) can handle the extra load, but until we know this, I'm cautious about supporting the idea.

On 10/16/10, Darrell Anderson humanreadable@yahoo.com wrote:

Although SVN provides a direct route to testing patches for the next 3.5.13 release, I want to propose making tarballs available too.

Many people are motivated to test newer versions but do not have the bandwidth, computer horsepower, or inclination to support SVN.

I propose providing directories just like those for downloading the 3.5.12 tarballs. The directories would be explicitly named 3.5.13-testing or something similar.

When 3.5.13 goes live and official, all we should need do is just change the name of the directory.

Darrell