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Offline wawrzon

Re: Odyssey Web Browser Public Source Code Repository
« on: January 07, 2016, 02:24:17 PM »
deadwood proposed a bounty for big endian fix few weeks ago but scrapped the idea due to the apparent lack of interest. here you go, if none speaks up.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Odyssey Web Browser Public Source Code Repository
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2016, 02:46:09 PM »
so deadwood is not good enough for you?
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Odyssey Web Browser Public Source Code Repository
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2016, 03:29:38 PM »
deadwood has proposed a number of bounties, among others exclusively for aros68k. what would be his interest to propose those, if he was not intending to eventually pick them up? i mean, im not sure, but he likely is like most aros developers, mainly an x86/x64 user. its unlikely that he needs that endian fix himself...

what you say is the basic problem of the bounties, users will not donate if a trustworthy developer doesnt volunteer in advance. developers dont know how high the interest of users is. both is understandable. but someone tries to estimate interest, good thing would be to speak up, if you want it to take off.

some trustworthy site like people2power should have polls to estimate such bounty interest in advance to actually tarting them.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Odyssey Web Browser Public Source Code Repository
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2016, 11:02:57 PM »
Quote from: kamelito;801695
Why not just fill a bug report to the webkit team, they should fix what they broke right?
Kamelito

certainly, the big endian users have the highest priority with them. thats why they have practically abandoned to support this byte order. similarly why not complain with mesa/gallium team.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Odyssey Web Browser Public Source Code Repository
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2016, 11:54:39 AM »
Quote from: Acill;801708
What a damn shame. PPC had an amazing browser on MOS and its dead in the water now because of silly things like this. What about a 68k solution? Same issue?


not long ago olaf approached you guys on morphzone with his usual ideas of cooperation. what he has earned afair was claims that morphos doesnt need anything from anyone in the "amiga" scene, including aros, all traces of aros code in morphos have been rewritten long ago and that only other parties might gain advantages from such agreements.

when deadwood was trying to discuss bounty for a task, none else is apparently intending to address, namely the said endian fix, none of morphos or os4 users have spoken up. fine. now hire some vietnamese coder, if you like..
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Odyssey Web Browser Public Source Code Repository
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2016, 09:58:38 AM »
Quote from: radzik;802035
I have asked WebKit developers on the Twitter @webkit and they abandoned and will not support PPC any more.

So it looks like or we fix it in our community or in this situation I think is better to jump into new engine? Because it could possibly that after one fix WebKit , then in some time we must make other one etc.


wasnt that what you have been told from the start?

btw. on morphzone bigfoot reports to have fixed most endian problems with webkit engine in order to fulfil the js jit bounty he has accepted once, organized by pampers. the question is, what version of webkit engine it is, he fixed, and how could that remain maintained, since the fix sounds like a lot of work and doing that every other webkit release woulnt make any sense. imho the maintability is the first question people needs to ask themselves how to solve, especially if webkt team wouldnt accept big endian patches ushed upstream to their main repo, which seems to be the case.

once this is considered, bigfoot could be paid off, submitting his code to the deadwoods repo and the remaining issues could be taken care of in ccoperative manner. the question is, if morphos users who backed up the bounty so far, want to cooperate in such an affair, even though the resulting source was likely to be released anyway.