Hello world! You may have heard I’m in for another month!
So, this week I made some more progress with the testsuite system. The major improvements are finished support for the image comparison system I was talking about in last week report. The DumpRenderTree tool now dumps a PNG image of the webpage (this was quite easy to do thanks to the offscreen BView to BBitmap rendering and the translation kit) when requested (not all tests use the feature).
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This week I got the testsuite running. The fixed build of gcc I was talking about last week worked, and I can now link a working DumpRenderTree executable. The first test run wasn’t very good, with DRT crashing quite often, some javascript alerts popping on my screen, and ended after running about 9000 tests in an app_server freeze.
I’m adding some of the missing features to DumpRenderTree: alerts are now dumped to the standard output like other ports do, so they can be compared as part of the testing process.
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So, this wasn’t a fun week. Last week I had finished merging all commits from WebKit main repo. I got Web+ to run fairly well with these changes and I wanted to merge this into Haiku. However, while this works for the gcc2-hybrid version, I was not able to build a package for gcc4 and gcc4h. As a result, there were no nightlies published (the script wants all the architectures to work for a given revision before it gets published).
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This week I reached a major milestone in my work, as I’m done merging all WebKit commits all the way to november 2013. HaikuLauncher is still running fine, and I will make the small required changes in WebPositive so it works fine again. Expect an updated WebPositive in trunk very soon now.
This week merges were as boring as the previous week ones: addition of the NiX port, removal of the Qt one (next version of Qt will go with Blink), replacement of a lot of never-null pointers to use references instead, rename of the KURL class to URL, and some API changes.
From mid-June to early November, I have spent 320 more hours working on package management. After having worked on the bootstrap support in HaikuPorter (which Ingo has already mentioned in his blog entry), I have spent some time reworking the way how Perl and Pythong organize their modules: Scripting languages with module support usually expect to be able to build modules from source and install them somewhere into the hierarchy of the scripting language.
A quick hello from the Alchimie X demoparty where I gave a short talk this morning about Haiku news (PM merge, Sam460 port…) ;-)
Slides are here (french, sorry).
Lots of fun here !
Photo by @AmigaImpact.
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Sorry for no report last week, I was not in front of the computer on Friday.
Anyway, I got the HTTP authentication working last week. This was the last missing feature in the Services Kit version of WebKit when compared to the current cURL one. The next step is to fix the new rendering bugs.
The rendering side of things is mostly built into WebKit, so I didn’t want to fix it on the old version we are still running.
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Well, not so much progress on WebKit this week. I spent most of the time working on CMake code to get it to generate hpkg files. I got something that works well enough to link Web+ to it, so I can test things with the actual browser instead of HaikuLauncher. Today I added the cookie jar persistence, so Web+ remembers all the cookies when you exit and relaunch it.
Thanks to generosity of Haiku supporters, I will be able to continue my work on scheduler in November. It’s high time I wrote a report about what has already been done. As it was mentioned before my work can be tracked in the scheduler branch in my repository. Commit descriptions and some comments in the scheduler code contain more detailed motivation behind some of the decisions I had to make. In this post, though, I will concentrate how my work looked so far and what I plan to do next.
Time for a report again !
So, over last week-end and monday morning I finally got Ninja working. I already said some words about it, Ninja is meant to replace Make for building projects. It has less features, because it is designed to run files that are generated, rather than hand-written. In my case, CMake generate the Ninja failes. I had problems building Ninja that turned out to be abug in our Python port.
