Re: HEADS-UP: About www/midori browser (XFCE related)

On 21/10/23 17:20, Guido Falsi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As you may have noticed there is a new version of the Midori browser.
> 
> This new version is an almost complete rewrite based on Gecko (it really 
> looks like a fork of Firefox LTS, looking at the new source code), 
> published by a new entity that acquired the project some time ago. [1] [2]
> 
> I asked on the XFCE mailing list if there still was any connection 
> between XFCE and the Midori project and they confirmed there is no such 
> relation anymore [3] (this was already clear from the wikipedia page, 
> but I wanted some confirmation).
> 
> Based on this I am planning to put the port back i the pull of 
> unmaintained ports, removing it from under the XFCE hat.
> 
> If there are objections please state them in a reply.
> 
> I'll also give a shot at a final update to a current version before 
> removing it from xfce@ maintainership. But since this is a complete 
> rewrite using gecko, it looks like a difficult update and I am not sure 
> I can succeed by myself.

As I feared I was not successful in creating a proper update.

I'm sharing my partial work here, if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/madpilot78/ports-midori-overlay

The README.md there contains an explanation of the main problem, short 
version:

the update mostly works, creating a usable browser, but it just looks 
like it is firefox nightly. Upstream has no build instructions, and 
their public repo lags behind some internal one.


I'll remove xfce@ maintainership from the midori port later, if anyone 
is interested in creating a proper update and needs a committer I can 
try to help, although I am quite happy with firefox as a browser.

-- 
Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>