Nightly builds are not the current master branch 😭

[Gavin-Holt]

Hi,

This is a known problem - if you read the discussions.

Release process #3276

• There are also nightly builds: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/tag/nightly but apparently they are broken: for some reason it builds v2.0.13, instead of the newest master, every night. @zyedidia any chance to fix that?

Lots of major fixes are not making it into the available binaries, not so good for us non-compiling users 😭

I would be great if this could be fixed, it appears to be broken for all push commits by @dmaluka and @JoeKar (i.e. Since Oct 23)

Kind Regards Gavin Holt

[JoeKar]

Looks like this was a cron task at @zyedidia's host, calling tools/nightly-release.sh, which isn't performed any longer.
Form my perspective tools/nightly-release.sh and tools/cross-compile.sh should be adapted any way:

• use $commitID as replacement for $1 respective the unneeded shell argument of tools/nightly-release.sh
  • the resulting archive will receive the commit ID in his name by default, which makes sense for a nightly
• stay with tools/cross-compile.sh in the current directory
• binaries shouldn't be moved between these scripts and everything performed in the root of the repo; then we can call tools/nightly-release.sh directly

This would allow to use this script within a GitHub action, where hub (GitHub's git extension) can be performed too, in the "usual" cron manner.

Unfortunately there is still one important point we can't bypass alone:
These GitHub actions need a secret, which we can't read/write so far...only the repository owner/admin can do.

[zyedidia]

Sorry about that, updating the release now. I think a token may have expired. I will monitor to see if this keeps being a problem in the following days.

[Gavin-Holt]

Hi

I was hoping to try the new improved brace jumping. dmaluka kindly let me know that the PR had been merged.

However, I think the current Nightly binary is stuck, only including changes up to 1f51d0b committed on Apr 27.

I'm at work today and can't access https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/archive/refs/tags/nightly.zip which is @codeload.github.com - pesky firewalls! So I can't see the source to check if the new code is included.

Sorry I should have checked the Nightly binaries earlier.

Kind Regards Gavin Holt