[Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

[Peter Robinson]

Hi Lucian,

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Lucian Branescu
<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 June 2010 05:54, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Under the temporary working hypothesis that we want to make a Sugar release in
>> a couple of months, I'd like to know more about what we might find ourselves
>> integrating. Here's my current list of, er... mostly unvetted rumors. :)
>>
>>   1.  Aleksey: 0install integration, Vala-based sugar-toolkit
>>   2.  Sascha: versioned datastore
>>   3.  Tomeu: collaboration refactoring
>>   4.  Gary + Christian: alternative activity launch UI
>>   5.  Michael: git repo reorganization and build system rewrite
>>   6.  Gary + Scott: preliminary touch-related UI tweaks
>>   7.  Raul: rainbow
>>   8.  Esteban: virtual keyboard
>>   9.  Lucian: browser abstraction
> After some debate on what exactly I should be doing, I've decided that
> it's both prudent and relatively easy to make that abstraction layer
> after all. Since I last used it, pywebkitgtk's API has grown much
> closer to hulahop's, so a snippet similar to this one
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Code_Snippets#WebView already works
> for both hulahop and pywebkitgtk.
>
> I will be going forward trying to remove all hulahop & xpcom imports
> from Browse, effectively writing a complete hulahop backend for my
> abstraction layer. After that, I'll implement the pywebkitgtk backend.

I found some more information about the changes Mozilla is planning
for XPCom in gecko2. Each week they have a platform meeting [1] and
the notes generally have good information about what's going on there.
In this weeks meeting [2] they covered some upcoming changes to XPCom
[3] so you might find more useful information there.

Cheers,
Peter

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform#Meetings
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2010-06-08#Electrolysis
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568691