Ah, I see. So you guys won't port the dependencies right now due to manpower. And you explained it well. So that's why you guys won't bring Firefox 115esr to powerpc yet until you bring node.js,which became a requirement 1 year ago.
And thanks for clarifying I'm not too young,i will contribute later. Em dom., 15 de set. de 2024 13:46, Ed Robbins <edd.robb...@googlemail.com> escreveu: > > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2024, 17:23 Leo Historias, <leohistoriasanima...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> What? You didn't finish due to lack of "manpower"? >> > As far as I understand Adrian does almost all of the debian powerpc > maintenance (with some help here and there, not from me I'm afraid). > Without him there would be no ppc or ppc64 debian: As far as I'm aware it's > mostly a one man show (but apologies to anyone else whose efforts I have > missed in making that statement). He simply doesn't have time to maintain > thousands of packages and all the other work that goes into the OS AND port > a gargantuan browser and all its dependencies to powerpc as well, I think > is what he is communicating here. And nor can anyone reasonably expect him > to. > > And we need cross transpile? Okay, i could do it for you if only i had the >> skills necessary and I'm not too young (but being too young isn't neccesary >> for the reason not to do it,right? I'm 17,almost turning 18 next year!) >> > Sounds like a great time to learn and get involved! There is no too young! > > Ed > > Any alternatives in case firefox 52esr doesn't get updated to 115esr? >> Especially for tls 1.3 support,since some websites require it. 52esr's tls >> 1.3 support is only disabled by default,as far as i know. >> >> Em dom., 15 de set. de 2024 13:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < >> glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> escreveu: >> >>> On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 13:04 -0300, Leo Historias wrote: >>> > Thanks for your explanation,but why Node.JS? >>> >>> Because Firefox upstream decided they want to transpile Javascript files >>> during >>> the build process instead of the development process. >>> >>> > Why don't we have it on ppc32? >>> >>> Because it's not been fully ported to 32-bit PowerPC. I started working >>> on it and >>> some others did, but it was never finished. As I said before, all these >>> things >>> require a lot of human resources, i.e manpower. >>> >>> > One alternative is to build either Firefox using nodejsc >>> >>> I have no idea what NodeJSC is. As I said, one could cross-transpile the >>> JavaScript >>> files for 32-bit PowerPC and other architectures without NodeJS support. >>> >>> But someone has to do the actual work and I cannot clone myself. >>> >>> > or use a version of Firefox that requires rust but not Node.JS >>> >>> We're using the Firefox version that is part of Debian. Maintaining a >>> custom version >>> is extremely time-consuming. >>> >>> >>> Adrian >>> >>> -- >>> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >>> : :' : Debian Developer >>> `. `' Physicist >>> `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >>> >>
