Nightlies?

ann-dee-roo · Post by **ann-dee-roo** » June 11th, 2003, 12:00 am

I hate asking those "When will [noun] be [verbed]", but when will nightlies start being released? Will we have to wait until after a 0.1 milestone? If so, what's the projected date for a 0.1 milestone?

mscott · Post by **mscott** » June 11th, 2003, 12:04 am

ann-dee-roo wrote:I hate asking those "When will [noun] be [verbed]", but when will nightlies start being released? Will we have to wait until after a 0.1 milestone? If so, what's the projected date for a 0.1 milestone?

This question gets asked every week =). There will not be nightly builds any time in the near future. I have to hand roll every windows build. This is a small project (I'm the only developer) and I don't have exra machines laying around which can build nightlies. I wish folks would stop asking me about this. Takes me away from trying to work on thunderbird =).

Don and Andre do a great job of making Mac and Linux builds available which they too are doing by hand.

Hopefully if the project becomes successful and grows in attention, machines that could automatically generate nightly builds will be contributed by mozilla.org.

ann-dee-roo · Post by **ann-dee-roo** » June 11th, 2003, 12:06 am

Ok, well in that case what can I do to help other than the usual bug reports? I have little C/C++ experience but I am fairly talented with w3 technologies.

DizzyWeb · Post by **DizzyWeb** » June 11th, 2003, 4:02 am

But, if Thunderbird is to become the main mail client of Mozilla, it'll need more support, now wouldn't it?

Tom Sommer · Post by **Tom Sommer** » June 11th, 2003, 5:47 am

I was actually trying to set up a nightly build system, but I can't get my compiler to work... So help me and you shall have your nightlies :)

Not even dmose knows whats wrong...

andred · Post by **andred** » June 11th, 2003, 7:57 am

Remember that we provide builds basically as soon as something interesting has landed in Thunderbird.

Tom Sommer · Post by **Tom Sommer** » June 11th, 2003, 8:01 am

yes, well... we want nightlies :)

Just like the other bird

DizzyWeb · Post by **DizzyWeb** » June 11th, 2003, 8:30 am

The other bird has so much work being done on, that nightlies on daily basis (that looks stupid

) are more logical. For TB it would be a little strange, it happens quite often that no work is done at all over a day, so there would be nightlies with no diferences whatsoever...

Tom Sommer · Post by **Tom Sommer** » June 11th, 2003, 8:32 am

I'm willing to build the nightlies, I just need someone to help me fix my cygwin&MingW environment

DizzyWeb · Post by **DizzyWeb** » June 11th, 2003, 8:37 am

Don't count on me, I've been failing miserably on all attempts to build Firebird or Thunderbird

Tom Sommer · Post by **Tom Sommer** » June 11th, 2003, 8:39 am

haha, yeah... I've built the dist (finally), but the thunderbird.exe file has some strange behavior... All described in another topic

Tom Sommer · Post by **Tom Sommer** » June 11th, 2003, 10:21 am

One step closer, got it all compiled and working

Someone please help me with this

I get the following when trying to run thunderbird.exe in dist/bin/

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C:\MozillaBuild\mozilla\dist\bin>thunderbird
Type Manifest File: C:\MozillaBuild\mozilla\dist\bin\components\xpti.dat
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering begins.
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering succeeded
nNCL: registering deferred (0)
WARNING: Trying to set pref offline.news.download.use_days to with the wrong typ
e!, file c:/MozillaBuild/mozilla/modules/libpref/src/prefapi.cpp, line 966
*** Chrome Registration of package: Checking for contents.rdf at jar:resource:/c
hrome/comm.jar!/content/necko/

and then it dumps:

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Program-popup: XPCOM:EventReceiver: thunderbird.exe - Application-error: Instruction at "0x016b70b6" referred memory at "0x0623488c". Memory could not "written".

PS. I get the same error when running regchrome.exe

Tom Sommer · Post by **Tom Sommer** » June 11th, 2003, 1:02 pm

dmose helped me find the problem, I'm respinning win32 now... and then lets hope it's bloody working this time

sunnydayjj · Post by **sunnydayjj** » June 12th, 2003, 5:41 am

I prefer the current system over nightlies. I don't have to go read the forums and see what people are saying about the latest nightly, I just wait until a new build is posted on the project page and I know someone actually built it and tried it, so it shouldn't suck too much.

And incidentally, it doesn't suck much at all. It's very very good. Excellent work, guys. (guy?)

michaell522 · Post by **michaell522** » June 12th, 2003, 5:59 am

DizzyWeb wrote:The other bird has so much work being done on, that nightlies on daily basis (that looks stupid ) are more logical. For TB it would be a little strange, it happens quite often that no work is done at all over a day, so there would be nightlies with no diferences whatsoever...

that's not true. At the moment, there's much more being done on thunderbird than on Firebird. There have been only 2 changes in Firebird since 0.6 was released (in mid-May), and one of those was a change made by Scott MacGregor because it affected Thunderbird as well as Firebird.

The only reason Firebird nightlies aren't identical (usually) is because the Gecko stuff underneath is changing.

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