Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse and the move to WebKit

2012-02-20 Thread lkcl luke
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-02-17 at 05:33am, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> better news: i've just confirmed that: >> >> a) the removal of js_push_context and pop context was a spurious >>    error, those functions are now restored, confirmed as compil

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse and the move to WebKit

2012-02-20 Thread lkcl luke
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2 ok: one of the issues that i ran into on the original (flawed) webkit-gobject development work, as well as the ports of pythonwebkit to gtk and directfb, was quite how integrated the whole thing had to be. there are now something like *eight* separate language

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse and the move to WebKit

2012-02-21 Thread lkcl luke
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > You was replying a thread from Jun/2011. In this time the developers worked > in a Browse > version based in webkit. yes. i'm aware of that. i strongly recommend reverting the changes made. read what i wrote. actually read what i wr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse and the move to WebKit

2012-02-21 Thread lkcl luke
[summary to brendan and chris: chris, brendan, hi, i'm cc'ing you on this because the OLPC team have been forced into making a decision to move away from using xulrunner technology, as a direct result of the decision made to reduce python-xpcom to third party status: it's taken this long for the la

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse and the move to WebKit

2012-02-21 Thread lkcl luke
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > I asked Benjamin Smedberg, who replied as follows: thank you for notifying the right people, brendan. related bugreports: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728645 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660482 > " >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse and the move to WebKit

2012-02-21 Thread lkcl luke
hi todd, thanks for responding here. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Todd Whiteman wrote: > PyXPCOM supports all XulRunner versions from 1.9.1 through to XulRunner 9.0 > - versions are tagged in hg here: >    http://hg.mozilla.org/pyxpcom/tags ... but debian has *already* moved on beyond xul

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse and the move to WebKit

2012-02-24 Thread lkcl luke
[mozilla people, please feel free to skip to the bottom of this, for the conclusion - the rest is detail] right: i've just learned something very exciting: one of the pyjamas contributors, a very intelligent individual, anthony, has been working with the webkit-gtk team to create a gobject-introsp