Re: RISC OS Development

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 13:48:46 +0100, Glen Walker wrote:
> Oddly, as you were writing this I was sending you an e-mail requesting write
> access to the git repository!

I have seen your email and responded :-)

> > 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...

You're unlikely to "drag up to standard" RISC OS for this, without rewriting
non-trivial chunks of our build system, so if you made that your first goal,
I'd step back and reevaluate :-) Better to focus on improving the browser's
RISC OS experience. Take a look on our bug tracker for RISC OS related bugs
and pick one which you think you might be able to tackle. That'll be a better
introduction to things for you.

> > 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.

Aah, I'm based in Manchester, as is Michael Drake. But our developer weekend
is scheduled for Cambridgeshire since Vincent Sanders has kindly offered to
host it this time. Perhaps the autumn developer weekend we'll host in
Manchester somewhere :-)

D.

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