Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE 154
Ricky writes "Many wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer nightly builds of Internet Explorer — or at least something more frequent than months-to-years. Ars talks with Microsoft's general manager for IE, who says the IE9 development cycle will look much the same as previous versions. Not a great idea."
Re:Obvious... (Score:4, Informative)
The nightlies of Microsoft Bob basically killed all positive hype for the program.
Agile??? WTF? (Score:1, Informative)
Nightly builds has absolutely nothing to do with that retarded buzzword 'Agile'.
Nightly builds is just that, nightly builds. Trying to assert that nightly builds are 'agile' is like some cheeseburger and curly fries stained Star Trek tshirt wearing bearded GNU freak trying to claim releasing source code is 'GNU'.
Re:Obvious... (Score:1, Informative)
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it is broke, meh.
Re:Security Updates? (Score:2, Informative)
I guess Konqueror should have it's own update system, the OS update system isn't good enough?
Its, not it is.
Re:Security Updates? (Score:3, Informative)
Touché
Also, I’m = I’m.
Okay, I’ll shut up... and damn slashcode for not letting me use the … character code.
Wait a second... oh my god... did they really fix Unicode?
“Touché.”
It looks right in the preview. Just my luck it’ll screw it up as soon as I post.
It still doesn’t allow arbitrary characters, though... just certain ones. The ellipsis just melts into oblivion...
Re:Normal (Score:5, Informative)
WTF? Most companies don't release nightly builds of their software.
Not when it comes to web browsers. You can get nightlies from every single other major browser, except for IE.
They DO do nightlies... (Score:3, Informative)
From what I've gleaned from various Microsoft blogs, they DO release nightly builds, internally to all their own testers and employees.
That way, as far as I can tell, they get all the benefit of nightly builds, with absolutely zero of the downsides in terms of company image and dealing with buggy software in the wild.
Re:Maybe it takes more than a day to build it? (Score:3, Informative)
Given how tied into the operating system that MSIE is, I suppose that a build of MSIE would require a significant build of Windows as well.
I find it highly unlikely. In the end, IE lives in its own library, and any OS services that may need it call through that via stabilized COM interfaces. There's no reason why Windows can't be build against precompiled IE binaries and .idl files describing the interface, and similarly no reason why IE can't be built against the most up-to-date Windows SDK headers.
Re:Obvious... (Score:2, Informative)