FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Firefox in Haiku gcc4

["François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>]

> > Thanks to Ryan Leavengood's help on setting up crosscompiling 
> > from Linux we should soon be able to provide you with Firefox2 
> > builds specifically built for Haiku and gcc4. I guess 
> > productivity will go down (or up) :)
> 
> I am a web programmer working from home, and if we could get Firefox, 
> Pe, Apache, and PHP fully working, I could actually switch to Haiku 
> as 
> my main working platform.
> 
> I'd have to run it via VMware (since it won't run on my laptop), and 
> I'd 
> still have to switch back to Windows to check things out on IE, but 
> it'd 
> be pretty cool to be able to actually be productive on Haiku.
> 
> On the other hand, Be still runs on my old desktop, and I suppose 
> eventually I could run Haiku on that machine and connect via VNC from 
> my 
> laptop...
> 
> Pe was recently discussed; does anyone know whether Apache and PHP 
> will 
> compile and run in Haiku? And whether I can get to localhost even if 
> networking is not fully functional?
> 

Apache I don't know, but I suppose RobinHood could give less trouble 
trying.
And it should support PHP so that'll buy you some time.

Maybe we should actually put RobinHood in svn (with a simpler 
configuration interface à la PoorMan) ?

François.