AmigaOS 4: Timberwolf Goes Open Source

[Iggy]

The Frieden-brothers have  decided to make the Amiga Firefox port called Timberwolf open source! A  very good move, I must say.

http://oldschoolgameblog.com/2015/10/30/amigaos-4-timberwolf-goes-open-source/

So...does anyone want to source code to a dated port of Firefox (without any documentation)?

I think I heard some crickets.

[Iggy]

You don't think that us non-Friedens can/will learn something about how to fit more recent Mozilla code into OS4 by viewing this code and comparing with Mozilla baseline from that time period? As Thomas mentioned in his post, build documentation is forthcoming as well.

That is a heck of a task you are proposing without the documentation to tell you what the Brothers did to the original source code.
But we might as well be optimistic.

Good luck to anyone that wants to try it.

BTW - Even a MorphOS user can admit to you that the Friedens are fairly competent, and they have lost interest in it.

[Iggy]

In this day and age with source code version management systems like git this should not be such an humongous task as you like to present it.

You would know better than me Staf.
I was offered the source code to a well known Amiga program over a year ago.
Even with an Apple port handy, it looked like a mess to figure out.

[Iggy]

Thanks Staf,
I know know why so many use that.
I'll add it to my list of tools.