[openbeos] Re: Firefox in Haiku gcc4

  • From: "Brian Hague" <alphaseinor@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:20:26 -0600

Now we can squish the competition like a paper cup.... <straining noise>....

On 2/19/08, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Thanks to Ryan Leavengood's help on setting up crosscompiling
> > > from Linux we should soon be able to provide you with Firefox2
> > > builds specifically built for Haiku and gcc4. I guess
> > > productivity will go down (or up) :)
> >
> > I am a web programmer working from home, and if we could get Firefox,
> > Pe, Apache, and PHP fully working, I could actually switch to Haiku
> > as
> > my main working platform.
> >
> > I'd have to run it via VMware (since it won't run on my laptop), and
> > I'd
> > still have to switch back to Windows to check things out on IE, but
> > it'd
> > be pretty cool to be able to actually be productive on Haiku.
> >
> > On the other hand, Be still runs on my old desktop, and I suppose
> > eventually I could run Haiku on that machine and connect via VNC from
> > my
> > laptop...
> >
> > Pe was recently discussed; does anyone know whether Apache and PHP
> > will
> > compile and run in Haiku? And whether I can get to localhost even if
> > networking is not fully functional?
> >
>
> Apache I don't know, but I suppose RobinHood could give less trouble
> trying.
> And it should support PHP so that'll buy you some time.
>
> Maybe we should actually put RobinHood in svn (with a simpler
> configuration interface à la PoorMan) ?
>
> François.
>
>

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