[Coco] Building NitrOS-9 on Mac OS X

K. Pruitt pruittk at roadrunner.com
Thu Jan 22 00:45:30 EST 2015


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Ostrom"
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Building NitrOS-9 on Mac OS X

> I'm not an OS-9 user (maybe someday), but what is meant by "current 
> nightly build"?  Does someone from this list actively rebuild NitrOS9 so 
> that each day the files are different from the previous day?  What would 
> be the reason for this?  Wouldn't that be like Art reissuing ADOS every 
> day with a few changes?  I'm not putting this down, just trying to 
> understand what is happening behind the scenes.  Why does NitrOS9 need to 
> be rebuilt so often?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --- Steve ---
>

The nightly build isn't actually done nightly.  Hence you'll come across 
comments like "the recently updated nightly build" which simply sounds 
redundant until you realize the nightly builds are not nightly.



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