So what happening these days on The Camino Front ?
Mike is on sabatical, and has you can see he is actively working on Camino.
The Firebird team thinks about using some Cocoa widgets in their version of the browser, this is bad and good at the same time. It's good on the technical side, meaning more people will work on cocoa and might find issues and solve them faster. On the Marketing side this might be a bad move because this will confuse people - We already have a small user base (which has shrink when Apple released Safari last year).
At least two person have been working on compiling mozilla with IBM's XLC compiler and it does not work, nor does the binaries get smaller has I expected (it seems they 're making bigger libs). Thats too bad, because I honestly think that 21 Meg (6 Meg D/L) for a browser is really too much. I whish some IBM marketing people will read this entry and think that it wopuld be very intersting to sell IBM's XLC suite based on numbers obtained on a big project using GCC. If IBM could put it's compiler team on making mozilla faster and compatible using it as a "liv" testcase this would make people in the apple world switch to the compiler.
I've opened a bug so we can set a version number for the os when reporting bugs to the mozilla foundation.Now triagging might get better when this issue is closed. Btw The project will need more testers when we reach 0.8 alphas and betas so If you want to get involved it's now !! You need to create an account in bugzilla and to subscribe to the Camino Mailing list.
The build system for Camino will be upgraded to XCode and 10.3, the mechanism works. I've successfully tested a build on my 10.2 machine. This means I need to upgarde or get a newer/faster machine in order to continue to help development of Camino. When the new system is ready, mike should sent a note to the Camino mailing list asking developers if they are ready to upgrade. I hate apple because they force people to upgrade :-( Now 0.8 will be the last version available for 10.1 users (how many still left, is a mystery), I would like that some time be spent on optimizing Camino's code using such tools as shark. So our product gets faster and smaller.
If some of the links above do not work it's because bugzilla is being upgraded.
Leave a comment