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> As I said, not everyone wants to deal with CVS.

You don't have to deal with CVS to get a head build.  You use the
'cvs' version of Drupal < http://drupal.org/project/Drupal%20project/
cvs>.  That is essentially a nightly build (or an every-twelve-hour
build or whatever), it's just not labeled as such.  Maybe it should
be re-labeled or explicitly stated that the 'cvs' version is the
bleeding-edge code.