Paul Sprangers <p...@sprie.nl> wrote:
> From recent mails I understood that the RISC OS frontend of NetSurf may > eventually be dropped, since it's lack of maintenance is obstructing the > development of the core code. > > This may sound reasonable, but somehow I don't fully understand things. > Apart from some exotic operating systems (such as RISC OS), NetSurf is > also being developed for Linux and even for Windows. I guess that a huge > amount of time is needed for the maintenance of those frontends. However, > both Linux and Windows already have the choice of several free and fully > functional web browsers. > > I therefore suspect that the main reason for such development is the joy > of programming. If that is true, why not maintain the RISC OS front end > your self? It will at least guarantee quite a number of very grateful > users, > > Since this argument seems so logical, I must have missed one or two points > (or three). Which points may that be? The flaw in this is that none of the current NetSurf developers are RISC OS programmers, they may not even be RISC OS users. One of them may have an A9home but otherwise it would be down to rpcemu, as I understand it from earlier posts. Some interest has been shown in picking up development of the RISC OS front end but I would guess there a fair old bit of learning curve in getting to know the existing sources and so far there has not been any input of code from the potentially interested parties. Anyway it is not dead yet, there are people looking at this. So best wishes to all concerned. -- David Pitt MessengerPro on iMac
