On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Indan Zupancic wrote: [cut - a lot!]
Making a web site (or page for it) requires time, if you're willing to do that, go ahead but beware that we do not support unofficial patches so you'd have to answer all the incoming questions too.
Hmm, a web page, mind if I use the code of the splash screen as a basis? I only want to make an installer so that it's easy for people who, for instance, don't know what cvs is, to get a patched Dillo version. The goal is to have some sort of centralized patch place, with patches that work with eachother and are up to date. It requires time, true, but I'm willing to spend time on Dillo. The installer has no priority though, would rather spend my time to unite the IOData structures, switch to the GDK api, and clean up the https patch for now.
All the things I want to have different in Dillo I'm willing to change myself. I'm not saying you should change this or that so or so, I ask if you mind if I change or add some things a certain way, and if you agree that it's better that way.
Greetings,
Indan
Sorry to interrupt... I'm a keen user of Dillo but no hacker. I'll not comment on all the internals of Dillo since you guys are much more clever on this than me. But, see - the reason why I like Dillo is that it is light and mean - and can be tweaked into something I need. My need is a *light* browser which can be fitted into a thin client but still allow you to read web mail. This requires frame and https support. Other users of Dillo, like PDA users, couldn't care less about frames and https. The key point here is that neither I nor the PDA guys really have anywhere else to go than Dillo. I need to patch up Dillo with both Franks tab/frame patch and Indans https patch. Currently Franks patch is at ver. 14. The latest patch working on the most recent official Dillo release (0.7.3) is - as far as I remember - version 6. Today, when Franks new patch came out, I patched the Dillo cvs version with it. No problem. When I tried to add Indans https patch, it didn't work. Too old. Two weeks ago I tried the same. At that time the problem was the opposite! Honestly, this isn't a good situation. After following the mailing list for a couple of months I understand that the core developers have strong oppinions on the structure of the internals of Dillo. The is probably good since this created Dillo as it is in the first place. But in my humble oppinion either Dillo should release official minor version (0.7.4, 0.7.5 etc) more often so privateers can offer patches against these, or go along with this suggestion of Indans and support a semi-official patch model. The current model will not bring Dillo forward with the necessary speed, I fear. A lot of good ideas need to be tested and eventually absorbed if proven good.
(I wonder how many people wil read this 13K monster :)
I did! And this post even looks short now ;-) Mike -- Thinstation FAQ maintainer http://thinstation.sourceforge.net - a light, full featured linux based thin client OS