Upgrading to a nightly, what will it break?

I heard going from V10 to V11 broke some MySQL stuff.
I would like to upgrade from V11 stable to a recommended nightly release.
Reason: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1157733 (I've found a bug in the current V11)

Any smart / guru people here running a nightly build and got one they can go by? This is a "production" setup, so to speak - I just want it to 'work' you know?
I run MySQL and have XBMC on my HTPC, Desktop PC and Laptop though - all configured with sources.XML (IIRC) to point to the MySQL library.

I'd hate to break something.

Frodo alpha 3 was very stable for me. I used it until a day ago when I updated to the latest revision, but sadly that broke a bunch of stuff so I'm thinking about reverting back to alpha 3 when I get around to it.

If you decide to try out a nightly build just make sure you've got a backup of your whole XBMC folder just in case you want to revert back to Eden later.

I just went through 8 pages of unrelated looking for a log that might have been in that topic. Thought i'd mention that and same others some time.

Why not post a debug log, so someone can maybe see what goes wrong?
They can better advise you on further steps / or nightly version that dealt with the problem, that way.

If it is a corrupt file, is it possible to replace it?
See if it is really corrupt, your install might be fine. And a new install might have the same problem.
If it is in the database or something else an easier solution might be available.

If you want good advice from people give them all the facts, ok?

(2012-07-29 19:13)MassIV Wrote:  I just went through 8 pages of unrelated looking for a log that might have been in that topic. Thought i'd mention that and same others some time.

Why not post a debug log, so someone can maybe see what goes wrong?
They can better advise you on further steps / or nightly version that dealt with the problem, that way.

If it is a corrupt file, is it possible to replace it?
See if it is really corrupt, your install might be fine. And a new install might have the same problem.
If it is in the database or something else an easier solution might be available.

If you want good advice from people give them all the facts, ok?

Relax!
See this which you may have missed on my post
"However, the latest nightly does not crash."

The problem has been fixed, so now to route around it, I just need the latest reliable nightly

A monthly build is going to be the closest thing to a "reliable nightly".

Didn't know it existed - thank you.
You wouldn't know when the next one is going to be by any chance? Based on the dates, looks like waiting an extra few days might be prudent.

*shrug*

Well based on the link, I'm thinking within the next week so I'll try to grab one of those. Thank you.

I have now switched to the monthly "alpha 4" version for August - my crash bug is gone with the file I had issues with but there IS a weird rendering change on thumbnails, lacking any form of anti-aliasing or it's scaling the .JPG weirdly - they look jagged as hell.

I'll deal with it - but I would love the developers to be aware of it.

Guys,

How do I report bugs on the monthly versions, ANYONE? Some design changes which really suck on the August build.