[texworks] Call for Help: Testing

[Stefan Löffler]

Dear Phil,

On 15.02.24 12:25, Philip Taylor (Personal) wrote:
> May I respectfully ask, are we /really/ dependent on being able to 
> access nightly.link ?  Is there no other mechanism that could be used ?

I am open to any alternative suggestions. The way it currently works is 
this: GitHub automatically builds TeXworks whenever the code is changed. 
The resulting binaries are available on TeXworks' GitHub Actions page 
for anyone who has a (free) GitHub account. However, there are some who 
don't want such an account, and for those the nightly project [1] 
enables direct access to the automatically built binaries. From my 
perspective, this is a very useful option, as it does not requiring 
downloading/uploading/copying any files around.

For context, the automatic building and testing process has been working 
well, and I do not have the time (or willingness) to manually build and 
upload binaries for each supported platform each time the code is changed.

Regarding your SSL/TLS issue: For me, the error message
curl: (35) LibreSSL/3.8.2: error:1400442E:SSL 
routines:CONNECT_CR_SRVR_HELLO:tls
v1 alert protocol version
hints at the fact that an "outdated" protocol version is used that the 
server maybe simply refuses. With unsupported software, at some point 
this is bound to happen (I had a similar problem at work a while ago, 
when a WinXP machine suddenly couldn't connect to a file server anymore 
because the server refused all insecure authentication methods after an 
update).

But FWIW, in a virtual machine, I could download TeXworks successfully 
via the nightly link (on https://tug.org/texworks/ under "Online 
resources") with:
Win 7 Pro, SP 1 (64bit)
Microsoft Edge 109.0.1518.140
as well as
Firefox 115.7.0esr

HTH
Stefan

[1] https://github.com/oprypin/nightly.link
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