Re: [9front] netsurf native frontend

[Romano <unobe@cpan.org>]

Very cool, Philippe!

I'm testing a build now on 386.

Maybe it was mentioned previously and I didn't see it, but it looks like nsport is what someone needs to clone first: http://github.com/netsurf-plan9/nsport . Then cd into that dir and run 'fetch clone git', 'fetch clone ssh' or 'fetch clone http' (the instructions in README.plan9 say a simple 'fetch clone' without args would work, but it didn't work for me).

Note also that git9 changed the flag for creating a new branch: you might have to update the fetch script to use -n instead of -c.

I'll let you know how the build goes, and if I run in to any other gotchas.



On May 21, 2020 3:54:03 PM UTC, telephil9@gmail.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've just committed the initial release for the netsurf native
>frontend.
>Feature-wise it is almost on par with the framebuffer frontend except
>for images that are not handled yet.
>I tried to make it look and behave like a native application but would
>like to have some feedback on this.
>
>All code is in the main repository: http://github.com/netsurf-plan9
>
>In order not to mess with the current framebuffer frontend, I created a
>separate mkfile found in netsurf/mkfile.native.
>To build this new frontend, just run mk as usual and then run mk -f
>mkfile.native in the netsurf directory.
>
>Regards,
>Philippe