Source of AmigaOS 4 Firefox port Timberwolf now open to the public

dingdingdang · on Oct 30, 2015

Good idea to embrace github (https://github.com/tfrieden/timberwolf), think a lot of "minority" software scenes, like the Amiga community, could really do with embracing new platforms for distribution of both message (forums/chat) and content (i.e. code/binaries) - would make the whole experience a lot fresher both for existing core audience and newcomers.

mappu · on Oct 31, 2015

A github monoculture is equally worrying, though.

thejosh · on Oct 31, 2015

git remote add xxx git://xxx.com git push origin xxx

lcswi · on Oct 31, 2015

Does not include issues.

josteink · on Oct 31, 2015

Which wouldn't be so much of an issue (yes, yes) if lots of commits weren't of the type "Fixes #3243".

ekianjo · on Oct 31, 2015

It invites competition as well, to make a better service in the end.

gbraad · on Oct 31, 2015

Too bad it is not a proper diffset of the original Firefox codebase, such as a branch, patchset, and/or separate commits... whatever you want to name it. But as of currently it is an initial commit with all and a license change?

transfire · on Oct 31, 2015

Now open source AmigaOS 4 and we will be getting somewhere.

synchronise · on Oct 31, 2015

AROS already exists pretty much for this reason.

kibwen · on Oct 30, 2015

What version of Firefox is this based on? What modifications are necessary to get Firefox running on this platform?

doener · on Oct 30, 2015

Timberwolf is based on Firefox 4.0 from 2012:

http://www.amigabounty.net/?function=viewproject&projectid=4...

As far as I know there where only two updates since this initial release back in 2012.

bsimpson · on Oct 30, 2015

It makes me giggle to see HTML5 and ECMAScript 3.1 being bragged about contemporaneously. I know the ES versioning is fucked up because of the events that led to Harmony, but considering that HTML5 was the big tech buzzword until ES6, seeing HTML5 alongside ES3 makes it seem surprisingly old.