Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-25 Thread Luciano Wolf
Hi Anders, On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Anders Carlsson ander...@apple.com wrote: On 13 sep 2013, at 01:58 em, Hugo Lima hugo.l...@openbossa.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Antonio Gomes toniki...@webkit.org wrote: So will you advocate your users to use your external GitHub

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-23 Thread Anders Carlsson
On 13 sep 2013, at 01:58 em, Hugo Lima hugo.l...@openbossa.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Antonio Gomes toniki...@webkit.org wrote: So will you advocate your users to use your external GitHub version or the one in WebKit? Please consider not being half upstream. It wont be

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-13 Thread Hugo Lima
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Geoffrey Garen gga...@apple.com wrote: Sure. We at University of Szeged who work on WebKitNix from this year contributed many fixes to various part of WebKit: JavaScriptCore, WebCore, Tools, … Thank you for this list. I started reading through it, but I

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-13 Thread Thomas Fletcher
Geoffrey Garen wrote: Sure. We at University of Szeged who work on WebKitNix from this year contributed many fixes to various part of WebKit: JavaScriptCore, WebCore, Tools, … Thank you for this list. I started reading through it, but I noticed a high percentage of patches that were

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-13 Thread Hugo Lima
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Anders Carlsson ander...@apple.com wrote: On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Hugo Lima hugo.l...@openbossa.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Ryosuke Niwa rn...@webkit.org wrote: Interesting. That sounds a lot like Chromium's WebKit API layer. If I

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-13 Thread Antonio Gomes
So will you advocate your users to use your external GitHub version or the one in WebKit? Please consider not being half upstream. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Hugo Lima hugo.l...@openbossa.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Anders Carlsson ander...@apple.com wrote: On Sep 12,

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-13 Thread Hugo Lima
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Antonio Gomes toniki...@webkit.org wrote: So will you advocate your users to use your external GitHub version or the one in WebKit? Please consider not being half upstream. It wont be half upstream, but the github repository will be for example a fallback for

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-13 Thread Anders Carlsson
On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Hugo Lima hugo.l...@openbossa.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Ryosuke Niwa rn...@webkit.org wrote: Interesting. That sounds a lot like Chromium's WebKit API layer. If I remember correctly, that layer had to be modified constantly as WebCore/WebKit

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Philippe Normand
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 17:43 -0300, Luciano Wolf wrote: The most recent effort from our side is to provide WebRTC support. Thiago Lacerda is talking with Eric Carlson and they are coordinating the merge of Blink patches as well as planning the development of missing features. So, I believe we

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Osztrogonác Csaba
Hi, Geoffrey Garen írta: Does your code fix bugs or improve performance in WebCore or JavaScriptCore? As any other WebKit port WebCore bugs are fixed when we found it and need a fix, our current performance focus is on CoordinatedGraphics and there are another team working on get the

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Brent Fulgham
Hi, On 09/12/13, Osztrogonác Csaba o...@inf.u-szeged.hu wrote: Improving cURL network backend (which used by Apple's WinCairo port too) The WinCairo port is not an Apple project, though it is tied very closely to the existing Apple Windows port. However, I am quite happy that people have

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Darin Adler
In my work on clipboard and pasteboard recently, I started with the Mac port. The Qt and GTK ports have been easy to work with. Contributors to those ports have helped me get the details right, and the code for those ports is relatively self explanatory. The Windows port has been pretty easy,

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Geoffrey Garen
Sure. We at University of Szeged who work on WebKitNix from this year contributed many fixes to various part of WebKit: JavaScriptCore, WebCore, Tools, … Thank you for this list. I started reading through it, but I noticed a high percentage of patches that were port-specific build fixes or

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Zoltan Herczeg
However, I am quite happy that people have been working on improving the libcURL support :-) Thank you Brent. Although many people left, we are still here, and continually improving WebKit. We are serious about it. Regards, Zoltan ___ webkit-dev

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Hugo Lima
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Darin Adler da...@apple.com wrote: In my work on clipboard and pasteboard recently, I started with the Mac port. The Qt and GTK ports have been easy to work with. Contributors to those ports have helped me get the details right, and the code for those ports is

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Hugo Lima
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Ryosuke Niwa rn...@webkit.org wrote: Interesting. That sounds a lot like Chromium's WebKit API layer. If I remember correctly, that layer had to be modified constantly as WebCore/WebKit code was refactored so I'm a bit worried about this. Yes, in fact we got

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Benjamin Poulain
On 9/12/13 5:21 PM, Thomas Fletcher wrote: Geoffrey Garen wrote: Sure. We at University of Szeged who work on WebKitNix from this year contributed many fixes to various part of WebKit: JavaScriptCore, WebCore, Tools, ... Thank you for this list. I started reading through it, but I noticed a

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Thomas Fletcher
Oliver Hunt wrote: On Sep 12, 2013, at 6:38 AM, Thomas Fletchertho...@cranksoftware.com wrote: TDLR: Crank Software Supports a NIX port This is a question of maintenance burden. As Geoff said every port adds a cost to developing and maintaining webkit. You've said you support a NIX port,

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Hugo Lima
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Darin Adler da...@apple.com wrote: On Sep 12, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Hugo Lima hugo.l...@openbossa.org wrote: the Nix implementation will just delegate the implementation to the application I think what this means is that Nix will export interfaces that closely

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Oliver Hunt
On Sep 12, 2013, at 6:38 AM, Thomas Fletcher tho...@cranksoftware.com wrote: TDLR: Crank Software Supports a NIX port This is a question of maintenance burden. As Geoff said every port adds a cost to developing and maintaining webkit. You've said you support a NIX port, but a quick search

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Pokrzywka, Romain
As it was pointed in the first email of this thread and by Hugo's email, Nix targets whoever wants to have a hardware accelerated WebKit2 port on UNIX-based devices, with a minimum effort. Yes. I read that email. Then I asked who whoever was, and the answer was nobody. My position is

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Hugo Lima hugo.l...@openbossa.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Darin Adler da...@apple.com wrote: On Sep 12, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Hugo Lima hugo.l...@openbossa.org wrote: the Nix implementation will just delegate the implementation to the

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Brent Fulgham
However, you've already clarified that you're going to improve WebRTC and are, in fact, in the process of doing so. Furthermore, you've clarified that there is a demand for your port and human resources to maintain it. I'm actually curious if anyone's opposed to supporting Nix port and

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-12 Thread Benjamin Poulain
On 9/12/13 9:34 PM, Brent Fulgham wrote: However, you've already clarified that you're going to improve WebRTC and are, in fact, in the process of doing so. Furthermore, you've clarified that there is a demand for your port and human resources to maintain it. I'm actually curious if anyone's

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-11 Thread Luciano Wolf
Hi Geoffrey, As it was pointed in the first email of this thread and by Hugo's email, Nix targets whoever wants to have a hardware accelerated WebKit2 port on UNIX-based devices, with a minimum effort. During the last Contributors Meeting in San Jose, we've had discussions with Romain Pokrzywka,

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-11 Thread Geoffrey Garen
The most recent effort from our side is to provide WebRTC support. Great. Features, like performance improvements and bug fixes, are a great way to contribute to WebKit. As it was pointed in the first email of this thread and by Hugo's email, Nix targets whoever wants to have a hardware

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-10 Thread Žan Doberšek
The GTK, Qt and EFL ports were originally mentioned in this thread as the ports that could share much of the POSIX- or GLib-specific code. That's as close as they come to the new Nix port which would also use this code. The three ports are heavily tied to their respective toolkits. They could

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-10 Thread Geoffrey Garen
Does your code fix bugs or improve performance in WebCore or JavaScriptCore? As any other WebKit port WebCore bugs are fixed when we found it and need a fix, our current performance focus is on CoordinatedGraphics and there are another team working on get the canvas faster. I don’t

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-09-10 Thread Geoffrey Garen
What value do you think this port will bring to WebKit? For example: Does your code fix bugs or improve performance in WebCore or JavaScriptCore? Does the simplification you mentioned allow us to remove existing port-related code? You mentioned that EFL, GTK, and/or Qt

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-05-17 Thread Balazs Kelemen
Excellent! I'm looking forward to see WebKitNix in trunk. -kbalazs On 05/17/2013 02:41 PM, Luciano Wolf wrote: The openBossa team at INdT Brazil is proud to announce “Nix” - a new WebKit2 port based on POSIX and OpenGL. Nix stands for “WebKit for unix-like platforms” and, if you consider the

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-05-17 Thread Christophe Dumez - SISA
-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix The openBossa team at INdT Brazil is proud to announce “Nix” - a new WebKit2 port based on POSIX and OpenGL. Nix stands for “WebKit for unix-like platforms” and, if you consider the German meaning of the word nix, it can be taken

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-05-17 Thread Pozdnyakov, Mikhail
@lists.webkit.org Subject: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix The openBossa team at INdT Brazil is proud to announce “Nix” - a new WebKit2 port based on POSIX and OpenGL. Nix stands for “WebKit for unix-like platforms” and, if you consider the German meaning of the word nix, it can be taken as “WebKit

Re: [webkit-dev] Announcing new port: Nix

2013-05-17 Thread Karen Shaeffer
Hi Luciano, This appears to be a big step forward. I am especially interested in the notion of design freedom you speak of. Looking forward to seeing this upstreamed. enjoy, Karen. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 09:41:27AM -0300, Luciano Wolf wrote: The openBossa team at INdT Brazil is proud to