[tex-live] unix/windows inst, binaries

[Gerben Wierda]

On 6 Oct 2004, at 23:16, Karl Berry wrote:

>     As for binaries, may I suggest that for the final turn all 
> platform build
>     should be made from the updated source (not source.development).
>
> It would be a great deal of trouble for everyone to rebuild the 
> binaries
> again.  I see no purpose in doing so merely after copying
> source.development to source -- the generated binaries would be exactly
> the same.
>
> I would go so far as to suggest that we update source.development to
> source after the release, actually, so we can be sure that what is in
> source is actually what got released.

I think that  not all binaries are in sync with the exact same 
source.development time stamp.

I favour an absolute "code" freeze by moving to source, then a 
recompile window for people to deliver and who does has delivered 100% 
accurate and for the rest you use what you already have.

G