On 04/17/2013 07:20 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> wrote:
But is WebKit so much better? For example the WebKit2 decision _seems_ to
have been made by Apple engineers without even talking to major
contributors. The gtk bits are maintained the way we would like them to
but... I'm not sure that applies to the rest of the codebase.
I think WebKit is better, but I am no expert.
I have seen extensive technical discussions on public mailing lists.
I have gotten good and detailed responses on the public bug tracker.
I've also benefitted from information posted on bug reports reported
by other people.
And the GTK guys have done a great job at catering to our immediate needs.
There are other factors too. Chromium bundles a load of libraries,
rather than using systemwide ones, which is not really the model that
we expect on the open source desktop. I think this is the main reason
why it is not in Fedora (Fedora has a guideline against that, and
packaging Chromium is no easy task as a result). WebKit is much better
there, and in being in general a good "open source desktop friendly"
solution.
Yes, that is the impression I got from the reasoning from Tom 'spot'
Callaway [1], and it has been like that since 2009 it looks like, state
seems to be the same.
Peter says that building of Chrome in general needs a lot of horse
power, probably one reason it has not been build for Fedora-ARM yet.
I guess with Chrome we run into the same issues as with Android
regarding the openness, irregular code drops etc.
Regards,
Simon
[1]
http://ostatic.com/blog/making-projects-easier-to-package-why-chromium-isnt-in-fedora
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