[3.1] various README.md improvements w.r.t. build & branches #596
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Various improvements and/or opinionated changes to the README.md
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values (resolves Provide documentation on how to get mandel 3.1 compiled on Ubutntu 18.04 #512)main
is for development not production and send users over to the releases page to get latest release & tag info; remove the release 3.0 & release 3.1 mentions as that list will just grow forever over time.full-version-label-test|release-build-test|print-build-info-test
test exceptions. Day-to-day devs might not want those but when doing a build straight from the repo those tests should pass so let's just simplify this and suggest users to run all them.-DDISABLE_WASM_SPEC_TESTS=yes
speeds up build. Yesccache
can be a speed improvement for users who can tolerate it. But all these additions distract from the otherwise simple build instructions that are here to get users bootstrapped easily and simply. Perhaps these could be folded in to an "advanced build options" section or documentation or something.