[Freemint-list] Netsurf maintainer?

[Rob M]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Mark Duckworth <mduckworth at atari-source.org
> wrote:

> 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
>
>
It's why I was a supporter of Highwire. We really need a decent browser.

Rob




>
> 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
> >
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