capsicum support plans
kaltheat at googlemail.com
kaltheat at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 5 12:28:14 UTC 2013
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 01:30:30PM -0400, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > are there any plans to provide chromium for FreeBSD with capsicum
> > support? If I
> > am right Mr. Watson already did it for a previous chromium-version
> > and it was
> > "little" effort to do so.
> > It seems that since August, 2012 Mr. Dawidek is improving capsicum.
> > His work seems
> > to be funded by Google. Does this mean that they want to use it in
> > base-chromium
> > so that there is no need for FreeBSD-chromium-port to support
> > capsicum on its own?
> >
> > Regards,
> > kaltheat
> >
>
> Hmmm, suppose I need to read up on capsicum...
>
> Google is matching the funding from The FreeBSD Foundation on capsicum, with
> Google working on the Linux version. Sounds like they want it for Chrome OS,
> so ...
>
> Well, there's a wiki entry on ChromiumCapsicum --
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/ChromiumCapsicum
>
> Suppose the question is who wants to do it, and will it be part of the
> current port or as a slave port?
>
> Lawrence
Well, this wasn't exactly my question. But if this means that there are
currently no plans among the chromium-porters to implement capsicum-support,
then you're right: this would be the next question ... ;)
Sadly, I'm not able to help with it, but nonetheless I would appreciate to
use it ...
Regards,
kaltheat
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