http://www.raspberrypi.org/web-browser-released/

[hendry]

Hi there,

Is anyone working on packaging this in Archlinux? Here is the package list with this browser on Raspbian. http://ix.io/eb8

I'm more interested in the webkit library with appropriate gstreamer bits to get video playback smooth than the epiphany front end. I probably would want to use http://surf.suckless.org/

Thanks!

[WarheadsSE]

None of the core devs are as of yet, AFAIK. But we've hunted down their source repo, since they didn't bother to publish that. We've also isolated their latest branch. But no packaging as of yet.

[hendry]

Thank you for chasing this up!!

[kmihelich]

When they get their changes (which include a large pile of website-specific, self-described "hacks") accepted by the respective upstream projects, it will be included here.

The lack of peer review, no apparent open collaboration project site for their work (ie. GitHub), and the fact that the ~53k lines of patches between epiphany and webkitgtk will no doubt break on the newer versions packaged (and to be packaged) in Arch, means that it is not feasible for us to package this. It would also be irresponsible given the number of other packages that depend on webkitgtk.

They hacked support onto epiphany 3.8.2, while we package 3.12.1 right now. Our webkitgtk is at 2.4.5, theirs is at 2.4.1.

They need to become slightly more transparent in their work than a brick wall, support newer versions of the software, embrace public collaboration and peer review, and upstream their work. The fact that I had to chase down the pile of patches from the single debian repository where they are hosted is frankly quite ridiculous.

On another note, just buy an ARM system with a modern SoC, and you can run Chromium or whatever else like normal without any hacks.

[hendry]

Could you give an example of an ARM system with a modern 'system on chip' please?

[moonman]

http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7

[sdjf]

I quite frankly do not understand why Arch would need to support a second version of Epiphany for the Pi, anyhow, other than possibly it might be a lightweight version.

I thought about installing Epiphany, but it required so many dependencies that I decided to just use dwb and luakit, which work much better for my needs, and are much more user friendly than Midori. However, I do not need to play videos on my Pi.