[Nix-dev] Chromium feedback

[Luca Bruno]

I can offer my server for on-demand building versions of chromium if needed
for x64 only.

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Tony <white.tw.tw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I recently discovered the horror which is the maintenance burden on the
> chromium maintainers. For those who don't know it consists at a minimum of
> bumping major for three versions of the same source code pretty much once
> every month, checking that the files do not 404, checking that the debian
> packages of chrome (which the non-free plugins are borrowed from) do not
> 404 and building all three along with testing them. I will also add that
> chromium takes a horrendous amount of time to build. And security
> advisories are common. Adding further work.
>
> So I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on how we can ease the
> maintenance off chromium in nixpkgs.
>
> I would be happy with a new focus on stable but with a dev version which
> pulls from git and builds the world target. Beta and dev are dropped.
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Tony
>
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