On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:39 PM, James Stroud
Hi Richard,
I'm positive I did the most naïve thing (i.e. what a typical user would do) and
1. googled "cctbx" 2. clicked on the top hit (http://cctbx.sourceforge.net/) 3. clicked on downloads (http://cci.lbl.gov/cctbx_build/) 4. scrolled down to sources and clicked the first link (http://cci.lbl.gov/cctbx_build/results/2012_05_08_2305/cctbx_python_273_bund...)
This should now be changed to the build from late February (2013).
A helpful addition to the download page might be conspicuous instructions for an svn/git/hg/etc checkout of the "latest-greatest" development tree, if the sources are preferable to the released builds.
Unfortunately at present the builds include a lot of stuff that isn't in cctbx proper, including some SVN trees which aren't publicly available. I'd like to change this, but we need to discuss it internally.
Many projects support that mechanism of distribution. For some projects, like git itself (http://git-scm.com/downloads), this is the recommended way of acquiring the sources. If the package needs to be bundled into an archive, maybe there should be a conspicuous "nightly build" link.
Agreed. -Nat