[haiku] Re: Haiku Inc: Expressing our appreciation

  • From: Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:51:20 +0100

Hey,

On 2 March 2010 10:31, Ankur Sethi <get.me.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> In time, WebKit may become an optional package and WebPostive's sources may
>> be migrated into the repository. Until then, a package is periodically
>> refreshed and hosted at http://www.yellowbites.com/downloads/WebPositive.zip.
>> As a reminder, either a GCC Hybrid or GCC4 is required to run WebPositive.
>
> Many hugs to the entire WebPositive team! I'll check out the browser
> as soon as I finish building the newest trunk :)
>
> One concern: wouldn't including WebKit in the main repository bloat up
> the codebase? IIRC, other large projects (KDE, for example) have
> sub-repositories for non-critical applications and libraries so people
> on slow connections can check out only the stuff they need.

If the Webkit project turns out to be a very integral part of the
Haiku project, we can host it in a separate subversion repository, or
even a Mercurial or Git repository if needed.

N>

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