Stable/dev branches or should we provide pre-compiled binaries?

[joligario]

And I think that is just it. We had some people putting together "stable" builds. Then, the newest source change was adopted by almost everyone and the questions/complaints would rise: "Why won't this work?", "How do I get the latest source?", "I'm running 64 bit and the 32 bit won't work because my XXX is a different version.", etc.

[Kayen]

Well in theory any source code changes to the main branch are suppose to be assumed stable by default (ie person implementing them tested it). Usually the only time the instability is caught is when it is distributed to a large audience who can more broadly test it.