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

  • From: Sean Collins <smc.collins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:01:46 +0000

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> 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quickly and it doesn't take long for them to become outdated and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.

This is likely true, I think there should be quarterly builds, and the thing I find strange is that every Alpha, goes out better then 90% of the "beta" software I have tryied in my life.

As to the QT port, I use the QT port software all the time, I even build some on ocassion, its not in to bad a shape, though is does need the media kit plugged into the backend with phonon or whatever the new media backend is.

www.qt-haiku.ru, its all there. at version 4.8 to. Theres also Arora, which is a qtwebkit browser and the Qtwebkit code is all there.

Sean

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