Tor From SVN on Weelky Basis

[Jonathan Addington]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 01:31:52AM -0500, Jonathan Addington wrote:
>> I am running Ubuntu 7.10. Given the above, any reason not to recompile
>> from the SVN weekly or so? For the sake of the network should I use an
>> official stable or alpha release?
>
> Should be fine. We try to fix known problems in svn as we encounter them,
> so trunk is usually pretty stable. There are occasionally crash bugs that
> take us a couple days to fix; in those cases you might want to hang out
> in irc to hear how they're going. Please do report any problems you find.
>
> So yes, at least in theory, running trunk should be fine. I keep my Tor
> client as up to date as possible, to see if I can make bugs happen. I
> also periodically upgrade my directory authorities to trunk to try to
> get them to crash before new releases.
>
> --Roger
>
>

Thanks much Roger,

-madjon