Hexroll Backpack is now open-source
Added 2023-08-25 22:31:08 +0000 UTCHello Brave Adventurers,
I've just released the source code of Hexroll Backpack on Github. It is released under the terms of the GNU Affero Public License version 3.
Hexroll Backpack is based on the already open-sourced Electron project, and anyone who wishes so can now build it directly using the source-code.
Being an Electron-based app and very similar to the Discord or Twitch apps, Hexroll Backpack is essentially a Chrome browser bundled together with the HTML, CSS and Javascript parts of the full Hexroll web app. Instead of communicating with the Hexroll application server, Hexroll Backpack is using sqlite3 queries to read content from the HBF file generated when you download a snapshot of your sandbox.
As an open-source viewer and together with the open sqlite3 file format of the sandbox snapshot, downloaded sandboxes will have good longivity and durability.
If you're not really into this whole source-code thing, worry not. It is still easiest to use one of the pre-built versions of Backpack. These versions were compiled and packaged on secure servers (by CircleCI). The Windows and MacOS versions were digitally-signed and the MacOS version was notarized (scanned by Apple).
Enjoy the crawl,
- Ithai
