About These Emacs Builds

I build three different release flavors of Emacs:

Official releases
These should be more stable but are not released very often.
Pretests
These are much more stable and are meant for vetting the code for last minute bugs before a final release.
Nightlies
These are bleeding edge builds and may have bugs. They are built directly from the public Bazaar repository. I try to build these nightly.

The script I run basically just configures and builds right from the GNU source--I don't add any patches or any extraneous lisp packages. I do include the old Carbon icon on the disk image because I like it better than the new Cocoa icon but it is not enabled by default.

The builds will all build on whatever version of OS X I happen to be using at the time and so these may or may not work for you. The script is on my laptop which may or may not be on at the time the cron job should trigger, so it may miss a day here and there.

Note: Recent Emacs builds (since 2009-12-09) have 64 bit Intel support in the Universal Binary. Yay!

— David Caldwell