On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Rob Kendrick wrote:
Do we want to try to arrange for a NetSurf 2.0 to happen after GSoC, if we're happy with the way Hubbub is working? Vince is begging for a new release with all of the GTK work done since 1.2, and Debian are unwilling to package SVN heads unless it fixes grave bugs.
My main concern is the high proportion of crash bugs that are in the tracker. Unfortunately, most of these aren't reproducable and appear to be either the result of heap corruption or access through stale pointers. As this is generally something that happens on RISC OS only, we're kinda stuck without some debug tools :/
My gut instinct is that releasing before October would be premature, otherwise we've no time to allow the GSoC (and other) changes to bed in.
Depending on how things pan out, I think it may be worthwhile to move to using GCCSDK4 to build for RISC OS. I do not, however, envisage (or advocate) a move to shared libraries on that platform until it's clear that a) any bugs in the shared library infrastructure are ironed out and b) there's no major issues on 26bit machines.
Moving to ELF has the advantage that we get DWARF for free and, with a little effort, a remote gdb debug stub.
J.
