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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon joelpt

Source code is missing

Open TobiaszCudnik opened this issue 11 years ago • 9 comments

Hi! First of all THANKS for a great addon! I really like it as i've been missing vertical tabs since TabKit stopped working in FF.

Because of this I would like to contribute some features, but unfortunately there's no source in the repository? Is this on purpose or just a matter of lack of resources to publish it till now?

In the other thread i've seen you consider moving issues out of github (because of lack of the OAuth sing in). I think that the main benefit of github are pull requests, so please consider pushing the source here, thanks!

TobiaszCudnik avatar May 23 '13 19:05 TobiaszCudnik

I've submitted an post about this in the forums. Go there and comment if you want. http://sidewise.userecho.com/topic/260448-/

rwohleb avatar Sep 12 '13 21:09 rwohleb

Dear Joel, maybe there is anything new on this issue? Thanks in advance, Dan

dsh2 avatar Sep 20 '14 22:09 dsh2

This seems to be the main "Idea" (feature request) for open source if folks want to vote there. Not response in two years though... http://sidewise.userecho.com/topic/148677-open-the-code/

studgeek avatar Dec 12 '14 00:12 studgeek

For anyone who is interested, I have created a fork of the project at https://github.com/saintwolf/sidewisefork

Unfortunately due to licensing issues, you are not allowed to publish any of the code to the Chrome store, so it's a bit of a non-starter, but it's the best we can get if the owner isn't willing to fully open-source it.

saintwolf avatar Mar 21 '16 16:03 saintwolf

@saintwolf where did you get it?

ghost avatar Mar 21 '16 16:03 ghost

@ho-pp It's not exactly a black box :) The source for any Chrome extension you've installed will be in your user profile. For me it is in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions.

The code is exactly as I've ripped from there, except I've prettified it with my IDE so it looks nice on GH.

saintwolf avatar Mar 21 '16 16:03 saintwolf

@saintwolf Did you use a beautifier/formatter? The .js files have no line breaks in my Extensions folder (none at all, not a Windows-problem). Is this just the way the Chrome Store ships extensions?

ghost avatar Mar 24 '16 11:03 ghost

@ho-pp I used Atom Beautifier. I believe Chrome removes the line breaks during packaging to minimise the file size as much as possible, and maybe to obfuscate it a little?

saintwolf avatar Mar 24 '16 20:03 saintwolf

Note that the donation box lists "Make it open source" at the top of the plans for Sidewise. Not sure how much progress has been made though. screen region 2018-09-30 at 09 43 22

studgeek avatar Sep 30 '18 16:09 studgeek