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Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Post by pcwalton »

Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :)

It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so we can prioritize—especially if you're a Web developer!

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Post by slimsag »

pcwalton wrote: post #2

Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

Looks like visiting a Youtube video linked to via reddit.com/r/videos crashed it. The whole UX is locked up, so I can't click the "Click to submit report" button either. screenshot [1]

Either way, I'm already impressed by how zippy it is :D

[1] http://virtivia.com:27080/1ekpk4zch3tjg.png

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

#5

Post by marcusarmstrong »

pcwalton wrote: post #2

Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

First of all, congratulations on a huge milestone for the whole team.

As I understand it, this is shipping with WebRender enabled, right? How far out is WebRender 2 from making it into the nightly?

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Post by marcusarmstrong »

mjs wrote: post #4

The OS X binary isn't signed, and the download URL is HTTP. Is there a version available on a more secure distribution channel anywhere?

If you git clone and compile from source [0], that should do the trick (In that it gets you an HTTPS download), I think.

[0] https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml#building-and-runn...

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

#7

Post by Manishearth »

mjs wrote: post #4

The OS X binary isn't signed, and the download URL is HTTP. Is there a version available on a more secure distribution channel anywhere?

We're switching the download link over to HTTPS.

Is there a reason the OSX binary needs to be signed? We don't do anything special.

Edit: HTTPS up: https://servo-builds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

(This comment written in Servo :P )

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Post by pcwalton »

marcusarmstrong wrote: post #5
pcwalton wrote: post #2

Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

First of all, congratulations on a huge milestone for the whole team. As I understand it, this is shipping with WebRender enabled, right? How far out is WebRender 2 from making it into the nightly?

Yes, this is using WebRender by default. The WebRender 2/WebRender Next branch can render most content just fine at this point, but we went with the mainline branch for the initial nightlies, as it's more mature and stable.

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Post by anirudhan »

Congratulations on the release.

Running ./servo gives me this error.

"./servo: error while loading shared libraries: libEGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I guess it should be an easy fix. But if there are instructions to copy/paste that would really help. If someone has an answer, it would be great if you can please post it here.

Edit 1: I think the problem is because I am trying to run it on ubuntu 14.04 server. Also I am using xming and putty x11 forwarding. I installed libegl using 'sudo apt-get install libegl1-mesa-dev'. Now I am getting a new error.

Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display "localhost:12.0". thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to create window.: NoAvailablePixelFormat', ../src/libcore/result.rs:785 note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.

So I ran with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 and this is the stack trace.

Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display "localhost:12.0".

thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to create window.: NoAvailablePixelFormat', ../src/libcore/result.rs:785 stack backtrace:

   1:     0x55868358b56f - std::sys::backtrace::tracing::imp::write::h6528da8103c51ab9

   2:     0x55868359319b - std::panicking::default_hook::_$u7b$$u7b$closure$u7d$$u7d$::hbe741a5cc3c49508

   3:     0x558683592dff - std::panicking::default_hook::he0146e6a74621cb4

   4:     0x558683471857 - util::panicking::initiate_panic_hook::_$u7b$$u7b$closure$u7d$$u7d$::_$u7b$$u7b$closure$u7d$$u7d$::hc61828c8a9f6df01

   5:     0x558683578dcc - std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook::h983af77c1a2e581b

   6:     0x5586835933e1 - std::panicking::begin_panic::he426e15a3766089a

   7:     0x55868357a63a - std::panicking::begin_panic_fmt::hdddb415186c241e7

   8:     0x55868359337e - rust_begin_unwind

   9:     0x5586835c997f - core::panicking::panic_fmt::hf4e16cb7f0d41a25

  10:     0x558681766ff0 - core::result::unwrap_failed::hd132ba2b7d75f379

  11:     0x558681765df4 - glutin_app::window::Window::new::h750be0f1f60f008a

  12:     0x558681764df0 - glutin_app::create_window::hae774cdda1762e66

  13:     0x55868170df45 - servo::main::h6924e5658370f6b5

  14:     0x558683592778 - std::panicking::try::call::h852b0d5f2eec25e4

  15:     0x55868359d5db - __rust_try

  16:     0x55868359d57e - __rust_maybe_catch_panic

  17:     0x55868359221e - std::rt::lang_start::hfe4efe1fc39e4a30

  18:     0x7fcc0d82eec4 - __libc_start_main

  19:     0x55868170cf09 - 

  20:                0x0 -
Edit 2: I am not sure if this discussion belongs here. Let me know if I should move this somewhere else.

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Post by psiclops »

pcwalton wrote: post #2

Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

Great to see your progress so far. Looking forward to using it

P.S. The app icon is the best part by far!

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