Re: RISC OS Development

On 2018-07-09 13:41, Daniel Silverstone wrote:

Hello Daniel!

Oddly, as you were writing this I was sending you an e-mail requesting
write access to the git repository!

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:09:17 +0100, Glen Walker wrote:
>> I have been around in the RISC OS world since about 2015 but have just
>> formally announced to the RISC OS Open community that I will be
>> devoting my
>> spare time to developing NetSurf on RISC OS...I know this is a little
>> back-to-front but I'm announcing it here too!
>
> Cool, we'll be glad to have some help.
>
>> https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/5/topics/11721?page=1#posts-81035
>
> Once concern I have, having read that, is your intent to work on RISC
> OS for this.
>
> Sadly we've not supported building NetSurf under RISC OS for many years
> now.
> We've invested no effort into making the build systems, code
> generators, etc
> work under RISC OS, we use Perl and Python, as well as building C-based
> code
> generators, and very little is meant to work under RISC OS any more.
> It's
> possible you might be able to make some of it happen, but I'd strongly
> recommend you pick a more competent development environment such as
> Linux. You
> could still use RISC OS hosted editors if that's your bag, but
> compilation etc
> will be much more effectively done under Linux.

I suspected as much and will no-doubt fall back to that position until
RISC OS is dragged up to standard! Ever the optimist I'll have a go and
see what breaks first though...

>
>> Progress is likely to be slow and I don't know if anyone else out
>> there is
>> working on RISC OS (if you are please say "hi" so I can work with
>> you!) but
>> when I have something more to contribute I'll let you all know...
>
> We look forward to hearing from you wrt. patches, and if you would like
> to be
> involved in the next NetSurf developer weekend, please do raise your
> hand, we'll
> be meeting in a few weeks in Cambridgeshire.

Thanks - I hope to get stuck in this week once I've figured out what I
did to my OS when I was upgrading from 5.23 to 5.24! I'm up in The
North and don't get out much but thank's for the offer...will keep tabs
online, here and join the irc as well most likely.

>
>> In the mean-time happy coding everyone!
>
> And to you.
>
> D.

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