Servo Night Builds Begin, Linux Packages Coming

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Servo Night Builds Begin, Linux Packages Coming

The Mozilla developers working on the Servo browser layout engine and the Browser.html HTML-based web UI have kept to their goal of making a tech preview available in June...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Servo-Nightly-Builds

[shmerl]

Interesting. I wonder if Firefox add-ons will work with it eventually.

[Fry-kun]

Nightly builds don't work in Fedora (openssl library is too new)

[Hamsterkill]

Interesting. I wonder if Firefox add-ons will work with it eventually.

The next generation WebExtension ones I expect to, eventually. Probably not the current ones.

[microcode]

Nightly builds don't work in Fedora (openssl library is too new)

Modify runservo.sh and remove "-b" from the arguments, it should work then. It's just complaining about a lack of symbols, those aren't fatal errors.

[Zan Lynx]

Modify runservo.sh and remove "-b" from the arguments, it should work then. It's just complaining about a lack of symbols, those aren't fatal errors.

Or you can do what I did, git clone the repository and do a ./mach build --release then cd target/release, then you can use the same runservo.sh script in the nightly build.

It does take a while to build, and about 5 GB of disk space.

[Anvil]

Interesting. I wonder if Firefox add-ons will work with it eventually.

i doubt it, Addons will be similar to Chrome's/Safari for Servo Browser. so a lot of them will be Limited in what they can do

[Duve]

Interesting. I wonder if Firefox add-ons will work with it eventually.

As they are currently, with xul... no.
They will likely port web extensions from Firefox proper, part of the reason for the move to it was servo and narrowing security issues involved with kepting xul alive.

i doubt it, Addons will be similar to Chrome's/Safari for Servo Browser. so a lot of them will be Limited in what they can do

By the time that servo is in production use.... I am no so sure that will app

[Duve]

Sorry for the double post.

[kmare]

Nightly builds don't work in Fedora (openssl library is too new)

Yeah, it's a shame. But at least it looks like they're working on it in the form of a FlatPak for fedora users.

https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12102