I am one of the people who pushed for this. I donated a moderate sum to help, but I did not help build or market it. I'm thankful for the effort, and sorry that it did not go well.
In my view, having SWT Chromium exist as a completely separate GitHub project is just as good or better. Ned Twigg Lead Software Engineer, DiffPlug LLC 540-336-8043 (cell) 888-513-6870 (fax) 340 S Lemon Ave #3433, Walnut, CA 91789 ᐧ On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:36 AM Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurt...@redhat.com> wrote: > The Eclipse Project PMC has agreed that the time spent on > building/infrastructure/reviews/bug triaging for Chromium support in SWT, > in its current form, is not providing benefits for the open source > community. Setting aside how demotivating it is to work on something that > isn't useful, we simply do not have the resources to dedicate to something > which can not be used in real applications. The security concerns in the > current Chromium support are eroding SWT credibility since part of the > project has a hard requirement on a library with many CVEs. > > Thus the following steps will be taken: > * We will stop building and publishing the Chromium support libs for M1 > (2021-04-09) unless a patch is contributed by that time, which > provides support for a recent, CVE-free Chromium version. > * The code and disabled builds will be kept until the end of the current > release cycle (2021-06-16) to provide an opportunity for the community to > step in if there is interest in keeping support for it. > > We absolutely want to see the SWT ecosystem grow (but not at the cost of > putting at risk regular builds, and the motivation of people working on > it). Thus we would support efforts to improve SWT extensibility so that > alternative Browser implementations can be provided without the need for > changes in SWT codebase or involvement of Platform rel. eng. That is, we > want it to be possible to contribute new browser support by an > independently driven project. Who would like to help? > > P.S. Removal is to be handled via > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=572010 > > -- > Aleksandar Kurtakov > Red Hat Eclipse Team > _______________________________________________ > platform-dev mailing list > platform-dev@eclipse.org > To unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev >
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