Plain ZIP or TAR.*z downloads for Linux and Windows would be pretty nice! Especially for pre-release versions (Beta, etc. ...). On Linux, it would be even more useful than those rpm and deb filebundles which are currently being provided. Because if people want to install LibreOffice via their package management, they normally use their distributions package sources. So if people download LibreOffice for Linux on www.libreoffice.org they probably would be much more happy with a plain ZIP/TAR. I know, I can do this on Linux. But a lot of people don't and a plain ZIP/TAR would be much more straight forward! https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Linux#Step_3:_Tweaking_the_Install_Destination I'm not really an OSX user. But i guess on OSX this is not such a problem, because LibreOffice on OSX is just a plain *.app folder in a dmg archive.
I disagree. If you want try betas you need to do that in real life situations. So you need to install the software as if it was a stable release. Betas are provided as LibreOfficeDev to not interfere with your current stable LibreOffice installation. For those who do not want install new packages, it is very easy to build LibreOffice from sources. Closing as WontFix. Best regards. JBF