Source to Firefox 3.0a1 and the nightlies?

Matt342 · Post by **Matt342** » May 4th, 2006, 8:00 pm

Where can I get the source to Firefox 3.0a1 and the Firefox nightly builds?

Matt

RyanVM · Post by **RyanVM** » May 4th, 2006, 8:59 pm

...you seriously haven't looked at all, have you?
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Bu ... umentation

Fox On Fire · Post by **Fox On Fire** » May 5th, 2006, 3:33 am

He may have been hoping to download a packaged tarball, rather than having to get them via CVS.

Apparently only release builds are available as a tarball unfortunately (unless there has been a recent unannounced change to this policy).

Matt342 · Post by **Matt342** » May 5th, 2006, 6:42 am

Would this work for getting the 3.0a1 source code:

cvs -d

server:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/browser/config/mozconfig

Or do I need a specific branch:

cvs -d

server:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -r BRANCH mozilla/client.mk

And what is the branch for Firefox 3.0a1.

Matt

jmck407 · Post by **jmck407** » May 6th, 2006, 6:03 am

Fox On Fire wrote:He may have been hoping to download a packaged tarball, rather than having to get them via CVS.

Apparently only release builds are available as a tarball unfortunately (unless there has been a recent unannounced change to this policy).

why is that? I prefer to use tarball's also, and spent quite a bit of time searching for them...as you pointed out with out any luck.

mahowi · Post by **mahowi** » May 6th, 2006, 6:28 am

Matt342 wrote:Would this work for getting the 3.0a1 source code:

cvs -d server:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/browser/config/mozconfig

Or do I need a specific branch:

cvs -d server:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -r BRANCH mozilla/client.mk

And what is the branch for Firefox 3.0a1.

Matt

3.0a1 is on the trunk, no branch. You don't need the "-r" switch for cvs for it.
2.0a1 is on MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH, 1.5.0.x on MOZILLA_1_8_0_BRANCH.

Thumper · Post by **Thumper** » May 6th, 2006, 7:08 am

jmck407 wrote:why is that?

Because the only common use case for needing the source for a non-release build is that you're doing ongoing tree development. Nightly source might not even compile, and would take up a collossal amount of disk space on the ftp servers.

- Chris

auenf · Post by **auenf** » May 6th, 2006, 7:21 am

there is a tarball, it doesnt contain the firefox specific stuff anyway, so you still need to do a cvs checkout.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... est-trunk/

doesnt look like its been updated since 23rd feb, not sure if that intentional or not.

Enf...

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » May 9th, 2006, 11:32 pm

well, there will be a long checkout list, so