I'm sorry, but if Mark were to put pre-release code in SVN, then people could give feedback before the final release, so that the final release of an update wouldn't require 15,000 quick-fixes and would be solid. Nobody would have to run the SVN version, it's a pre-release. Use the production release. Sheesh!
Yeah, and then I get to spend three days completely unable to do a stroke of work because a bunch of changes happened all at once and killed my project stone dead. Done that a few times too many already thanks. At least with syncmods, I have a head start on the problem. The way this is being proposed, I'll likely have even more wasted time. Might not bother hobby coders, but when it's paying my bills ( or not ) I could do without days on end unable to progress.