[openbeos] Ang: Re: Ang: Re: Firefox in Haiku gcc4

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>Från: darkwyrm@xxxxxxxxx
>Datum: 20-02-2008 12:38
>Till: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Ärende: [openbeos] Re: Ang: Re: Firefox in Haiku gcc4
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>holmqvist.fredrik@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> There seems to be a little confusion over what this means. 
>> 
>> For those using the regular Haiku builds Firefox from 
BeBits ( 
>> http://www.bebits.com ) has always been there. It should 
work 
>> quite well now. I recommend the BONE version if possible.
>> 
>> This however are for those who uses or builds Haiku under 
>> gcc4. This version is not backwards compatible with BeOS 
due to 
>> changes in gcc. It has now been proven that we should be 
able 
>> to build Firefox even for those people.
>Does this pave the way for FF3 builds?
>
>--DarkWyrm
>
>

Yes and no, Mozilla is not interesting in keeping gcc2.95 
support so we are in better shape there. However to have 
Firefox3 we need someone to fix Cairo for BeOS/Haiku. It is 
mostly ported, but not working correctly. Also we would either 
need to port Pango or write our own fonthandling. Hopefully we 
can skip Pango as OS/2 apparently does.

Personally I think Cairo is very ugly so I'm not very 
interested in doing that myself. The idea to abstract away the 
rendering implementation though is quite good.

/Fredrik Holmqvist, TQH

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