Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Benjamin Kerensa bkere...@ubuntu.com wrote: Daniel is talking about chromium-browser not Google Chrome which is closed source and he is correct chromium-browser is outdated since the maintainer of the package has moved on to other projects. Please don't spread

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Nicolas Michel
Jordon, You have wrong. Chromium is and ever was the core of the web browser from Google. And it is open source (there was no before, no after, no fork - it is the core). Google Chrome is that core, plus a certain amout of code which is not open-source and so, you don't have access to the source

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Nicolas Michel be.nicolas.mic...@gmail.com wrote: You have wrong. Chromium is and ever was the core of the web browser from Google. And it is open source (there was no before, no after, no fork - it is the core). Google Chrome is that core, plus a certain amout

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Damian Ivanov
Hi, Jordan, aacually what you describe is not a fork. In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software. The term often implies not merely a

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Damian Ivanov damianator...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Jordan, aacually what you describe is not a fork. In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it,

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread John Moser
On 09/04/2012 07:13 AM, Daniel Hollocher wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Damian Ivanov damianator...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It would be nice if someone could step up and maintain the chromium-browser version of chromium, but for whatever reason, that isn't happening. Shouldn't the

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Nicolas Michel
2012/9/4 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com On 09/04/2012 03:44 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Nicolas Michel be.nicolas.mic...@gmail.com wrote: You have wrong. Chromium is and ever was the core of the web browser from Google. And it is open source (there was no

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Nicolas Michel
2012/9/4 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com On 09/04/2012 03:44 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Nicolas Michel be.nicolas.mic...@gmail.com wrote: You have wrong. Chromium is and ever was the core of the web browser from Google. And it is open source (there was no

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Damian Ivanov
Hi David, Bad said, Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, it gets forked once in a while after a release to update packages, see wikipedia. Anyway I think chromium is still the most recent, from when 12.04 was released, so may somebody will just need to pick it up for 12.10 I guess 2012/9/4 David Klasinc

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Damian Ivanov
-- Forwarded message -- From: Damian Ivanov damianator...@gmail.com Date: 2012/9/4 Subject: Re: chromium no longer maintained To: Gareth McCumskey gare...@nexustech.co.za From wikipedeia: scroll down to history and development, Ubuntu is a forkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread David Klasinc
My message was a (too) subtle hint that this thread should die, because it is really not important what is the codebase for what and who's forking and who's not. :) Regards, David -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 September 2012 13:26, Damian Ivanov damianator...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, Bad said, Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, it gets forked once in a while after a release to update packages, see wikipedia. Anyway I think chromium is still the most recent, from when 12.04 was released, so may

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Damian Ivanov
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/new-chromium-stable-and-development.html 2012/9/4 Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com: On 4 September 2012 13:26, Damian Ivanov damianator...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, Bad said, Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, it gets forked once in a while after a release to update

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Damian Ivanov damianator...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/new-chromium-stable-and-development.html Cool. So that will allow users who would like to use chromium-browser. It still looks like no one should be using chromium 18 since there have

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread John Moser
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM, David Klasinc bigwh...@lubica.net wrote: who's forking and who's not. :) Cheeky. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-03 Thread Daniel Hollocher
why? (we have 18, but 21 is the latest stable, 19 the latest supported or something like that [22 is the current beta, 23 is the current dev]) Something should change. Version 18 is in the archives and the various ppas. As far as I can tell, 18 should not be made available to users since it is

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-03 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Daniel Hollocher danielholloc...@gmail.com wrote: why? (we have 18, but 21 is the latest stable, 19 the latest supported or something like that [22 is the current beta, 23 is the current dev]) Dear Daniel, Either you provoked something or... I am running

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-03 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:33 PM, LD 'Gus' Landis ldlan...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Daniel Hollocher danielholloc...@gmail.com wrote: why? (we have 18, but 21 is the latest stable, 19 the latest supported or something like that [22 is the current beta, 23 is the