[haiku-development] Re: R1/a4 initial planning

  • From: Kunal Bharati <kunalbharati@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:08:52 +0530

Sorry for taking this discussion in other direction ;)

But will the r1/a4 come with vbox extensions? I mean if the user is
installing haiku r1/a4 in virtual box then the extensions will be enabled
by default?

On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, Ryan Leavengood wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Ryan Leavengood 
> <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> > If it makes you feel any better I have long had plans to borrow any
> > useful code from the Chromium project for Web+, if it can be used
> > without too much hassle. But finding the time to even investigate that
> > sort of thing is the main issue.
>
> Responding to myself because I realize we have gotten really off-topic
> of this thread, sorry. (I blame Stephan for bringing up WebKit! ;) )
>
> In general I don't think anything about WebKit or Web+ should delay
> the alpha4 release. If I or someone else can make improvements, great,
> but it isn't critical.
>
> I think the schedule Matt suggested sounds OK, and maybe even a bit
> too long. If we didn't make such a big deal out of alpha releases and
> did them more often they wouldn't have to become so difficult. It is
> sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy: we make a big deal out of each
> release and try to make them perfect so they can last a while because
> we don't want to have to go through that difficult process very often.
> But the reality is we find out that they weren't perfect pretty
> quickly and it doesn't take long for them to become outdated and
> useless. Maybe if we released more informally more often this would
> all be easier...but that is probably a discussion for another time.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ryan
>
>

-- 
Thanx,
Kunal

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