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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 23:02:52 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: lightweight web browsers (was: [ANN] sabotage 0.9.7
milestone (x86[_64]) release)
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:57:12PM -0800, idunham@...abit.com wrote:
> > On 11/07/2012 07:04 AM, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> >> On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:34:38 +0100
> >> John Spencer<maillist-musl@...fooze.de> wrote:
> >>> still missing:
> >>> - a desktop browser that comes with minimal dependencies (currently
> >>> only
> >>> lynx can be used to browse the interwebs)
> >> So you don't have Links2 yet?
> >>
> >> Dependencies:
> >> CLI:
> >> Minimal:
> >> openssl | gnutls
> >> ncurses
> >> Enhancements:
> >> libz, liblzma, bzip2 (transparent decompression)
> >> -libz, while optional, should be enabled or some sites won't work.
> >> GUI:
> >> Minimal:
> >> libpng (1.2, NOT 1.5!)
> >
> > oh, that's bad. i rather not have to have 2 different library versions
> > around.
> In my tests, libpng 1.5 is a little bit new for a good bit of software.
> And Debian and Gentoo are both still defaulting to 1.2.x.
> (libpng 1.2 & 1.4 are "stable" but ABI incompatible; 1.5 is "development")
> My own inclination would be to just use libpng 1.2, but...sabotage is your
> project, not mine.
libpng is a really, REALLY badly designed library. It's no surprise
the ABI keeps getting broken, but I wish they'd go ahead and fix the
API when they break the ABI...
> >> And it's unfortunate that OWB seems to be gone; it was a WebKit/SDL
> >> browser
> > hmm i vaguely remember that compiling webkit has lots of dependencies,
> > at least the last time i tried it.
> >
> They ported WebKit to SDL. If I remember right, they somehow took care of
> most of the dependencies.
Interesting.
Rich
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