[Greasemonkey] Some news from the burning edge

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 5/4/05, Nikolas Coukouma <lists at atrus.org> wrote:
> I've found that I can't install 0.3b and get the following error message:
> "Greasemonkey" could not be installed because of an error in its Install
> Manifest ("0.3b" is not a valid Version String). Please contact the
> author of this item about the problem.
> 
> digging through the code turned up this regex
> /^([0-9]+\.){0,3}[0-9]+\+?$/

Dang it.  We checked that letters were OK before starting alphas with
letters, and then they change it.  Heh.

> I might as well note that Greasemonkey is completely broken in the same
> trunk builds (both 0.2.6 and 0.3b), at least for me (Mac OS X build),
> and has been as far back as 4/18. I haven't had time to figure out why.
> For now, I'll just use aviary because I just wanted a couple post-1.0.3
> fixes.

Well, that's 4 for 4.  I think I'd better start running nightlies,
because we'll apparently be forever fixing things.

Can you point me to a page that explains what the different kinds of
nightlies are (are there multiple trunks, too?), and how to get them
installed?

I'm running windows with VC++ 6 and cygwin, if that's helpful.  I've
previously tried to build FF myself, and gave up after about 6 hours
at it.