Hi,
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 05:20:46PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Axel Beckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (sorry, no APT repository yet) for all architectures since conkeror is
> > architecture-independent. The exception is spawn-process-helper. I've
> > built conkeror-spawn-process-helper packages for i386, amd64, alpha,
> > sparc, powerpc(*), kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64(*) since those are
> > the architectures I have machines available with. :-)
>
> Would it help if someone wrote a perl version of spawn-process-helper?
Not really IMHO. As soon as the package is in Debian it will be build
on all architectures by the build daemons. The list above is just what
I can personally provide in advance to the official inclusion in
Debian. (And yeah, I like non-usual architectures. ;-)
> Then conkeror would work on all debian archs xulrunner supports.
It will do anyway. :-)
> Maybe I'll do what I did last time nobody pursued my proposed pet
> project and implement it myself:)
There are few more things pro and con a Perl version of
spawn-process-helper:
+ It would simplify the packaging.
- It would add more dependencies. And although there's nearly no
Debian installation without Perl, I try to avoid dependencies on
additional scripting languages if I can.
+ I could debug and fix it more easier if it would be written in Perl
instead of C since I'm way more experienced in coding (and
debugging) Perl scripts. :-)
- It would be slower and needs more memory. Not sure how much this
would be noticable.
- AFAIK spawn-process-helper is a work around for some deficiency of
xulrunner -- which I expect to be fixed somewhen in the future. (I'm
an optimist. ;-)
Short said: I'm fine with the current situation, but if someone find's
some really good arguments for a Perl version, why not? :-)
Regards, Axel
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Axel Beckert - [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://noone.org/abe/
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