[haiku-3rdparty-dev] Re: [BeZillaBrowser] Integrating Firefox native add-ons
- From: Rahul Krishnan <pprahul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-3rdparty-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:52:42 +0530
Thanks Stephan.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2010-02-15 at 14:14:43 [+0100], Rahul Krishnan <pprahul@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > My interest is "to get a modern browser working on Haiku", which will
> > support add-ons
> > and additional features that are already present in other projects.
> > So, WebKit also becomes a natural option for me. :)
>
> That's great to hear!
>
> > Thank you for that really detailed discussion.
> >
> > Since I have decided to spent my time on helping to get a working browser
> in
> > Haiku, I am excited to work on WebKit for Haiku.
> >
> > I had read the article by Maxime on "How to work on WebKit", and am
> > currently trying it out.
>
> Ok, Ryan is not happy about this at all, but what happened is that Michael
> Lotz has setup an SVN repository on his (dyndns) server for the time being,
> since we needed to start collaborating and sending patches around didn't
> work
> for us anymore. Although the repository on gitorious exists, a number of us
> were having problems with git on Haiku, partly due to Haiku, perhaps partly
> due to the port, and also because of a somewhat steep learning curve with
> git. When I had a current checkout of the gitorious repo, and my changes in
> there, I couldn't commit them back to gitorious, even though I had gained
> write access. Git insisted I had no write permissions, although I had setup
> my SSH keys and all... The next thing that happened was that the gitorious
> repo was updated with a broken WebKit version, and I finally gave up and
> switched to using the main WebKit trunk directly. Then of course I had this
> monster patch which started to become a pain to manage and pass to the
> others. Michael wanted to start working on this, so to cut a long story
> short, we ended up setting up this "private" SVN repo for the meantime, and
> have also requested a project on OSDrawer, which should make this all more
> "official".
>
> For the time being, it will be the easiest for you, if you work directly
> with
> our repository:
>
> svn checkout svn://mmlr.dyndns.org/webkit/trunk WebKit
>
I shall checkout this, and start to get a feel of the source.
>
> This repo doesn't include the LayoutTests and some other stuff, so it's
> much
> smaller than a regular WebKit checkout. There is a HowToBuild text in the
> top-level folder, so that should get you a successful build going quickly.
>
> > Could you suggest few pointers, wherein I could start off with the
> project
> > right away so that I could get a feel of it ?
>
> Sure, I'm working to implement a basic browsing history at the moment.
> Getting the clipboard stuff to work and keyboard short cuts would be some
> of
> the most urgently needed things. If you come into #haiku-dev on IRC, we
> usually hang out there while we are working on WebKit, so that we can
> coordinate our efforts. I can give you an introduction to the source tree
> there, if you want.
>
Sure. An intro to the source will be of great help. I shall join you in IRC.
Regards,
-pprahul
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
>
>
>
>
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Rahul Krishnan
Amrita University '12
http://rahulkrishnanblogs.wordpress.com
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