On 21/10/23 17:20, Guido Falsi wrote:
Hi all,
As you may have noticed there is a new version of the Midori browser.
This new version is an almost complete rewrite based on Gecko (it really
looks like a fork of Firefox LTS, looking at the new source code),
published by a new entity that acquired the project some time ago. [1] [2]
I asked on the XFCE mailing list if there still was any connection
between XFCE and the Midori project and they confirmed there is no such
relation anymore [3] (this was already clear from the wikipedia page,
but I wanted some confirmation).
Based on this I am planning to put the port back i the pull of
unmaintained ports, removing it from under the XFCE hat.
If there are objections please state them in a reply.
I'll also give a shot at a final update to a current version before
removing it from xfce@ maintainership. But since this is a complete
rewrite using gecko, it looks like a difficult update and I am not sure
I can succeed by myself.
As I feared I was not successful in creating a proper update.
I'm sharing my partial work here, if anyone is interested:
https://github.com/madpilot78/ports-midori-overlay
The README.md there contains an explanation of the main problem, short
version:
the update mostly works, creating a usable browser, but it just looks
like it is firefox nightly. Upstream has no build instructions, and
their public repo lags behind some internal one.
I'll remove xfce@ maintainership from the midori port later, if anyone
is interested in creating a proper update and needs a committer I can
try to help, although I am quite happy with firefox as a browser.
--
Guido Falsi <madpi...@freebsd.org>
