Hi, Tim:
Very informative reply. Mucho gracias.
Regards,
Glenn
On Friday 07 September 2001 06:22, you wrote:
> Glenn Williams wrote:
> > Hi, Tim:
> >
> > What is a "mozilla nightly?"
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Glenn
>
> Mozilla - the open source development project for Netscape 6 (and
> some other, lesser known, companies) - builds versions of the browser
> package every day with the latest changes and calls them nightlies.
> It's quite different using a nightly than a point release. You get
> additional bug fixes *and* bugs. Sometimes the thing won't even run
> (which is what my son found out this morning).
>
> Typically, I'll pull a nightly down every couple of days to see how
> things are coming along.
>
> More info can be found at http://www.mozilla.org.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> > On Thursday 06 September 2001 19:41, you wrote:
> >>My son has succumb to pressure from the old man to use linux full
> >>time (that and he couldn't get windows to install for some reason
> >> and I refused to help him...). So taking in the advice of dep's
> >> latest .comment on linuxplanet, I'm trying to be a good guru.
> >> Unfortunately, he's asked a question that I don't know the answer
> >> to.
> >>He's downloaded a couple of mozilla nightlies and has liked what
> >> he's seen. His initial comment was something like, "wow, that's
> >> fast". Of course, the last time he tried Mozilla was probly two
> >> months ago. Anyway, I walked him thru downloading a nightly tar
> >> binary and extracting it to a local folder to run and he seemed
> >> happy with that. Now, though, he wants to automate the process.
> >>So he asked me if it could be done and how. I told him that I'm
> >> sure it could be done, but I don't know how. SO the task at hand
> >> is to downoad the latest mozilla nightly and untar it to a local
> >> folder autmatically every night. Any scripting gurus out there
> >> wanna share their expertise with a budding 13-year old linux geek?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Tim
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