Re: [9front] Netsurf 3.9 for Plan 9 (work in progress)

[jamos@oboj.net]

I just committed the first changes to the git repo that Ori kindly set 
up for the Plan 9 port of Netsurf. I have checked in the files for the 
smallest and simplest library (libwapcaplet) as a test, using git9 by 
Ori. I will continue with the other libraries, and the browser itself. 
Each library is in it's own repo on Github. I'll write again when I 
managed to commit the rest.

For the curious, you can help me to see if I did everything correctly, 
by checking out and compiling the 'libwapcaplet' library. This is my 
first real Git experience :-)

git/clone git://github.com/netsurf-plan9/libwapcaplet.git

Kyle> I have something partially working with webfs

This is super cool! If you feel for it, it would be interesting to read 
about your efforts and the
problems you encountered.

/Jonas


On 2020-01-24 20:16, Kyle Nusbaum wrote:

> I am away from home for the next week and didn't bring the code with 
> me.
> 
> I have been hacking on it in my spare time and made some progress. It's 
> not pretty yet, but it's actually minimally useful (to me at least). I 
> will try to get some repos set up on GitHub when I get back if someone 
> wants to look at what I've done.
> 
> On January 24, 2020 3:09:57 AM EST, Eli Cohen <echoline@gmail.com> 
> wrote: bump. did anyone ever put repositories of this up yet? don't let 
> them
> shout you down
> 
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:26 PM Kyle Nusbaum <knusbaum@sdf.org> wrote:
> Attachment didn't take. My mistake.
> 
> On January 7, 2020 10:23:40 PM CST, Kyle Nusbaum <knusbaum@sdf.org> 
> wrote: I gave up trying talking directly on /net/tcp. It is a pointless
> exercise and would need to be replaced right away anyway.
> 
> I have something partially working with webfs. I replaced the
  llcache

>> implementation with one that uses webfs. We still need the old
  version

>> to handle objects like "resources:quirks.css" etc.
>> 
>> I'll keep working on it when I get time.
>> I'm attaching a screenshot of the thing partially rendering the
  netsurf

> website.
> 
> On January 4, 2020 3:33:48 PM CST, jamos@oboj.net wrote: On 2020-01-04 
> 19:14, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> 
> What I'd do is clone the upstream netsurf repos onto any git host
> that you feel like (except gitlab -- git9 triggers a bug in their
> backend, and I haven't had time to find a workaround), and then
> branch off a 'plan9' branch that we can work on, and commit the
> current state.
> That sounds like a cool way, but I am kind of a git rookie. I
  assume

> that the reason to clone the main repository is that it will be
  easier

> to merge them together eventually? Or even to keep the plan 9
  branch

> up
> to date with new versions of the mainline? I have based my port on
  the

> stable release 3.9 while the core team is happily hacking away on
  what

> even will be the next release (usually one version per year).
> 
> The official site has many git repositories
> (https://source.netsurf-browser.org) - from which I actually downloaded
> every support library separately. Each repository has a tag for
  each

> release. There are also a number of branches (especially for the
  main

> netsurf repository:
> https://source.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/refs/heads) that
  looks

> like experiments.
> 
> I might be inclined to keep it simple to begin with, but if there
  are

> very compelling reasons for a more elaborate way, I might be open
  to

> that, in order to avoid lots of work later on.
> -- Kyle

-- Kyle
-- Kyle