[openbeos] Ang: Re: Ang: Re: Firefox in Haiku gcc4
- From: "holmqvist.fredrik@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <holmqvist.fredrik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:06:56 +0100 (CET)
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>Från: darkwyrm@xxxxxxxxx
>Datum: 20-02-2008 12:38
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>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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