[sldev] Re: Webkit (Re: CMake preview available - please try it out!)

[Robin Cornelius]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:22 -0800, Rob Lanphier wrote:
>> We've been pretty frustrated with llmozlib as well, to be honest, and 
>> we're evaluating alternatives.  One option that we're considering is Webkit:
>> http://webkit.org/
.
> 
> Let it be known that whatever LL goes with, whether it be mozilla or
> WebKit or something else, in following with Fedora's mantra of
> "Upstream, upstream, upstream!" I have no interest in introducing a fork
> of something as big, complex and security critical as a web browser to
> Fedora. LL must push any necessary changes upstream for this Fedora
> packaging thing to work out.

This will become the same problem to Debian too, although at the moment
i seem to be able to use XULrunner, no other distribution does and I
think i got lucky there. Also with increasing patching to the mozilla
tree llmozlib is moving away from xulrunner so at some point I too will
be in the same situation. Debian would never allow a fork of mozilla for
something like this, there is too much security team overhead and no
using an existing library but forking one creates a security nightmare.

Also... are Linden Labs going to watch the mozilla mailing lists,
bugtraq etc and rebase and apply all mozilla security warnings into the
llmozlib version of mozilla? I suspect not, its a lot of work, and this
itself is a major headache, on ALL platforms.

Robin


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