Re: rjek@netsurf-browser.org

The following bytes were arranged on 10 Mar 2012 by lkcl luke :

> > NetSurf will almost certainly never rely
> > on a heavyweight tricky-to-port fat library such as any of the Glib
> > family, or anything else like that. If we need something as you
> > suggest, it will probably be our own, and not just because of NIH
> > syndrome, but because we have special requirements.
>
> 1) where may a list of the special requirements be found, such that i
> may review them and thus focus spending my personal free time and
> personal funds aiding and assisting the users of netsurf more
> productively?

While it's by no means a complete list, and is restricted to only one of
the many platforms NetSurf works on, this should give you an idea:

http://wiki.netsurf-browser.org/Caveat_RISC_OS

NetSurf is designed to be portable to as many systems as possible,
including a lot of niche, obsolete, slow and/or resource-limited ones.
I strongly suspect that many or all of the off-the-shelf libraries you
are recommending are not.

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