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| author | Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@dillo.org> | 2011-08-29 16:48:22 -0300 |
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| committer | Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@dillo.org> | 2011-08-29 16:48:22 -0300 |
| commit | 62e352718bdc827c60969a2b9699c706e5004c77 (patch) | |
| tree | fe39dc5b4d1bc8b9351a3bea4499d6ca039e6291 /README | |
| parent | 7e7e06168ec31994a98a4f91a8498e00f1957d7c (diff) | |
Minor changes for dillo-3.0-rc2
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 30 deletions
@@ -2,49 +2,48 @@ Dillo web browser =================== -dillo-2.2.1 is the last of the dillo-2.x series: +Dillo-3.0 is the first release of the newest branch, which is +based on the already released fltk-1.3 toolkit. This is big news +because it clears the way for Dillo to return to those +distributions which had excluded Dillo2 due to FLTK2 never +being officially released. -The 2.x series was based on FLTK-2.0, which was never released. -As distributions have the sensible policy of not including alpha -software, this kept dillo from being provided in their native -packaging systems. +The development effort shifted to the dillo-3.x branch long ago, +and it became the active one; dillo-2.x received less and less +attention, and dillo-2.2.1 became the last of its series. -In response, the core team switched to the more modern FLTK-1.3 -which has already seen its first release. +The core team will focus on implementing the CSS feature of +floating elements. This will greatly improve dillo's web page +rendering since many sites have adopted floats instead of tables. -The development effort shifted to the dillo-3.x branch long ago, -and it became the active one (dillo-2.x received less and less -attention). +The new dillo3 has shown excellent stability. -The new dillo-3.0 will be available in a few weeks, after it passes -the final stages of the release process. It has shown excellent -stability and comes with some nice new features as well. +The core team welcomes developers willing to join our workforce. - Here's a list of some well-known problems of dillo-2.x: + + Here's a list of some old well-known problems of dillo: * no FRAMES rendering * no https (there's a barebones prototype). ------ -FLTK2 ------ +------- +FLTK1.3 +------- - The FLTK2 library is statically linked into Dillo2. -The recommended version is >= r6916. and <=r7513 -If not available from fltk.org, you can get it here: + You can get FLTK-1.3 here: - http://www.dillo.org/dillo-2.x/fltk-2.0.x-r7513.tar.bz2 + http://fltk.org/software.php?VERSION=1.3.0 --------------- -Building dillo --------------- +--------------------------- +Building dillo from sources +--------------------------- 1.- Install fltk: - tar jxvf fltk-2.0.x-r7513.tar.bz2 - cd fltk-2.0.x-r7513 + tar jxvf fltk-1.3.0-source.tar.gz + cd fltk-1.3.0 less README.unix make sudo make install @@ -52,10 +51,10 @@ Building dillo (don't configure fltk with --enable-cairo) - 2.- Then dillo2: + 2.- Then dillo3: - tar jxvf dillo-2.2.1.tar.bz2 - cd dillo-2.2.1 + tar jxvf dillo-3.0.tar.bz2 + cd dillo-3.0 ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make sudo make install-strip @@ -101,4 +100,4 @@ Solaris Jorge.- (jcid@dillo.org) -July, 2011 +August, 2011 |