In message <[email protected]> Michael Drake <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the main things blocking NetSurf 2.0 release are: > > 1. NetSurf doesn't work at all on most modern linux distros. The > throbber throbs but pages don't load. I believe it was discovered > to be due to some libcurl / openssl thing. > > Joty has reported it on Ubuntu 8.10 and so has someone else reported > it for Ubuntu 8.10 in #netsurf recently. > > We've had reports of the same issue from other distro users like > Fedora for quite a long time. Indeed. I used libcurl4-dev under Ubuntu 8.10 and NS keeps on throbbing. BTW, shall I revert my libcurl4-dev comment in <URL:http://source.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/netsurf/Docs/BUILDING-GTK?r1=6341&r2=6343> ? > [...] I don't > think there is any problem releasing the RISC OS front end stuff in its > current state. Perhaps the new Tinct version supporting 64K modes could be put on the list but that's now in test so not going to be any concern as showstopper. John. -- John Tytgat [email protected]
