Hi Atiq,
The problem is the large amount of linux specific C++ Code the codebase
has and in general the large size and Sandboxing code. Browsers are a
beast. the NodeJS v8 engine and nodejs are in the repos and working.
NodeJS was made by Joyent who also made SmartOS back in the before days
when Twitter fit into 4 Zones (from previous 200 Linux VM's) and ruby
threw an exception every time it finished a loop....
tl;dr; Chromium is on the Wishlist but not the Agenda as we have nobody
with the right time and skillset and need to look into it at this moment.
Contributions are happily welcome. Let me know what you need to get started.
-Till
On 8/27/25 23:27, Atiq Rahman wrote:
Hi Till,
So, there's no plan in future for bringing in chromium related
technologies i.e., google's v8 engine / node / electron? I suppose the
port on x86 for illumos should be straightforward compared to SPARC.
How about an x86 only port? Is that on the agenda?
Best!
Atiq
On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM Till Wegmüller <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Atiq
Chromium is a massive porting effort with many patches and thus
unfortunately beyond my capabilities time and interest. I am working on
the Package manager and headless installer. We have a brwoser that
works
well and webkitgtk which is the better embedded option for frameworks.
Electron is one thing. Having enough versions of it available to
compile
all electron apps under the Sun a even more burdensome effort.
We welcome any contributions to the project.
-Till
On 8/26/25 22:16, Atiq Rahman wrote:
> Hi,
> Signal Desktop requires Electron. Similarly, does Telegram
require that?
>
> I guess porting chromium is a high-pri since it keeps coming back
> everywhere as a dependency. @Till
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Atiq
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM dan via openindiana-discuss <
> [email protected] <mailto:openindiana-
[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> As in my stations I always had Telegram nice doing like universal
>> messanger interface from/to different devices, I'm here to ask
>> to put in agenda the port of any Telegram client..
>>
>> thx
>>
>> Dan
>> 5mode
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