On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 08:20 +0100, A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk wrote:
would you prefer to have a nightly tarball of the files to be able to perform this function rather than having to be familiar with a revision control system which might not be present for your chosen platform?
All other things being equal: yes, it would be nice not to have to install an entire revision control system just to fetch the most recent version of the code. But my response to any sentence I hear that starts out with "all other things being equal" is to say that all other things are never equal. The developers already put a lot of time into something that I benefit from, so I would never ask them for this or begrudge them use of their revision control system of choice, given that waiting for the next stable release is always an option. --Greg