[Freemint-list] Netsurf maintainer?

[Mark Duckworth]

It pains me a bit to see this and not be able to claim responsibility
but there is just no way.  I don't even keep up with the things I've
already taken responsibility for.  I have built netsurf for our platform
before and it's not very easy.  Once you have the build environment
setup though it probably wouldn't be so bad to take care of it.  I do
wish I had unlimited time as this is probably the single most important
application on a modern machine.

Thanks,
Mark


On 02/25/2017 02:19 AM, Jean-François Lemaire wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 February 2017 01:17:25 CET Miro Kropáček wrote:
>> I think it has been discussed before, I remember even asking what exactly
>> needs to be done? It's just matter of making sure the current code base is
>> compilable on our gcc 4.6.4 or something else?
>>
>> Maybe they think our gcc needs to be updated but no, it doesn't. :) So if
>> you have access to their ML, try to gather as much info as possible, that
>> will make your offer/request much clearer.
> 
> I don't think the real problem is with the Netsurf automatic build system. I 
> always found their coldfire builds pretty slow anyway (something to do with 
> them being simply CF-compatible rather than CF-optimized, if I remember 
> correctly). Ole's build were always much faster (like 2 times faster). The 
> problem is since Ole stopped maintaining the Atari GEM fronted nobody stepped 
> up to maintain it.
> 
> In my opinion it's not really useful to trouble ourselves with daily automatic 
> builds of Netsurf if the Atari fronted lags behind more and more. Peter has 
> already posted on the NS mailing list several issues that seem to happen only 
> on the Atari version. And then one day the Atari version will simply not run 
> anymore. Not because of the build system, but because the frontend isn't 
> updated to take care of internal changes.
> 
> Cheers,
> JFL
>