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These are nightly builds of Basilisk that are built against the master branch of the Unified XUL Platform repository. A new build is triggered as long as there was at least one commit to UXP the previous day.

Branding has been changed due to patches being required to maintain compatibility with UXP. One should consider these builds as alpha quality due to limited testing.

Windows 32-bit and 64-bit builds are included.

The builds are available here: https://nightlizard.libinfo.science

Thanks for sharing! Nicely done, working well for me (Nightlizard-220505-win64). No problems to report.

Just to note, Nightlizard picks up the existing Basilisk profile when it is installed.

andkrau wrote: ↑

2022-05-06, 19:01

One should consider these builds as alpha quality due to limited testing.

One should consider these alpha builds by the mere fact that they are nightly builds against the master branch. Stuff will break.

Galaxy wrote: ↑

2022-05-07, 02:30

Just to note, Nightlizard picks up the existing Basilisk profile when it is installed.

It does look like changing the branding impacts 'MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME' and not 'MOZ_APP_NAME' (the internal name). This is consistent with nightly builds of Firefox and even Iceweasel releases back in the day. I updated the page to suggest that people should back up their Basilisk profile.

Moonchild wrote: ↑

2022-05-07, 08:52

One should consider these alpha builds by the mere fact that they are nightly builds against the master branch. Stuff will break.

Definitely the case. I added a couple sentences to the page to stress that there will be breakage.

Why not build against release branch of UXP and avoid setting landmines for potential users? Even unstable builds of Pale moon(when they were a thing) wasn't built from arbitrary last commit in master, but afaik only after some being-implemented-feature(s) was complete.

Nuck-TH wrote: ↑

2022-05-07, 15:51

Why not build against release branch of UXP and avoid setting landmines for potential users? Even unstable builds of Pale moon(when they were a thing) wasn't built from arbitrary last commit in master, but afaik only after some being-implemented-feature(s) was complete.

As these are nightly builds, primarily for myself, I am not too interested in doing stable builds that I wouldn't be using. I feel like that would be setting user expectations higher than they should be for these automated builds. When swapping out the Serpent branding, I tried to convey the nightly-ness. I'm certainly open to ideas to get the point across further though.

What technologies are you using for the continuous builds? Would you be interested in working with me to setup something similar for official Basilisk builds?

There are no official Basilisk Builds and making them isn't possible because it was discontinued and nobody was able to take over.
You absolutely have to ask for Permission first if you want to build with official Branding.

leothetechguy wrote: ↑

2022-07-30, 16:24

There are no official Basilisk Builds and making them isn't possible because it was discontinued and nobody was able to take over.

You absolutely have to ask for Permission first if you want to build with official Branding.

I am the owner of the Basilisk project, including the branding. I purchased it from Moonchild. I'm not asking myself for permission to build my own project.

See viewtopic.php?f=61&p=230756

Also https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/Basilisk will redirect to my RPMO account when you follow that link.

Sorry I wasn't aware of that

Basilisk-Dev wrote: ↑

2022-07-30, 03:17

What technologies are you using for the continuous builds? Would you be interested in working with me to setup something similar for official Basilisk builds?

It is really just a batch file checking if there have been any new commits to the UXP repo. If so, it starts a build. It purges older builds and updates the web page at the end. Sure, I can certainly give it a shot.

I've updated the Nightlizard site to reflect the change in status to the Basilisk project. Builds will now be against the official Basilisk repo instead of my fork. Next to the source code download, the page will have a link to the UXP and Basilisk revision that was used while building.