[dev-servo] What would it take to make Servo a replacement for ChromeOS?

2017-06-19 Thread Jose Marinez via dev-servo
blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } So yes, there’s Redox as an alt-os in Rust and it’s quite early for to start thinking this way, but perhaps not. A Servo based OS

Re: [dev-servo] What would it take to make Servo a replacement for ChromeOS?

2017-06-19 Thread Simon Sapin
On 18/06/2017 22:04, Jose Marinez via dev-servo wrote: So yes, there’s Redox as an alt-os in Rust and it’s quite early for to start thinking this way, but perhaps not. A Servo based OS would have many benefits. A browser engine based OS is where we should’ve been in 1994 if we had more CS people

Re: [dev-servo] What would it take to make Servo a replacement for ChromeOS?

2017-06-19 Thread Jose Marinez via dev-servo
blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } Thanks Simon for the info. Any idea where the code for Gonk is at the moment? GitHub somewhere? I might be interés in reviving th

Re: [dev-servo] What would it take to make Servo a replacement for ChromeOS?

2017-06-19 Thread Fabrice Desre
You can look at what was removed in https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/11474 I (still) think this is an interesting idea, and now doable out of the main Servo tree. That could work well with the "services" model envisioned in the B2G OS community (https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/c/

[dev-servo] Mozilla central backout support arriving to Servo later this week

2017-06-19 Thread Lars Bergstrom
tldr: If you see some PRs from the moz-servo-sync GitHub user with a priority of "treeclosed," it's because those must be landed into Servo ASAP to support Firefox backouts. Due to some amazing work from gps, we already have support for taking code changes that occur in Servo on Github and automat

Re: [dev-servo] [stylo-team] Mozilla central backout support arriving to Servo later this week

2017-06-19 Thread Jack Moffitt
Thank for everyone's efforts here. There never seems to be a perfect solution in technology, but I am happy we've found a solution that satisfies most of the constraints and were able to deploy it in time. For anyone that didn't already see it, glob wrote about the design here: https://blog.glob.c