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Jealous of Windows users and their Google Chrome? Build Chromium on OS X
- byrneseyeview 18y agoCurrently, the prerequisites don't fully build so you won't find an executable. I was less excited when I got to this part.
- perdurabo 18y agoAnd Hacker News continues its downward spiral into Diggian/Redditian inanity...
- avinashv 18y agoWhy? This is a site for hackers--here's some great code, it builds somewhat for OS X, and the kind of people that read this site are exactly the kind of people who are knowledgeable enough to work with the code and port it over. Whatever happened to the spirit of open source? It's like it became cool to say that every increasingly popular social new site is Digg/Reddit-like.
- run4yourlives 18y agoActually, this is a rather hackish post.
- cstejerean 18y agoFunny you should mention Digg/Reddit given the nature of your other comment on this thread.
- perdurabo 18y agoNote to people, the guy who submitted this is a jackass. This will not build a Chrome app for Mac OS X, it'll merely build some non-executable components.
- sant0sk1 18y agoThanks for the name calling. Where's your hacker spirit?
- tsetse-fly 18y agoYour post is misleading. You cannot build a usable application for OS X. http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-priorities.html http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-prioriti...
- delackner 18y agoGiven that this is hacker news, "build" doesn't just mean "compile an app that others have provided for you." It also means build the application, as in, here is an effort that is in progress to create something, and would you like to lend a hand.
- ashu 18y agoget off your high pedestal and just don't upmod the story, will you?
- tlrobinson 18y agoIf you left out the insult your comment probably would have been upmodded...
- tuukkah 18y agoFor port status see http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-priorities.html http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-prioriti...
- wmf 18y agoIs that Chromium the system for interactive rendering on clusters of graphics workstations or Chromium the open-source browser project? I guess if you're Google you can take whatever name you want.
- rcoder 18y agoSeeing that cross-platform support really is in progress (albeit incomplete) and not just a hypothetical goal reassures me that Google is truly serious about seeing Chrome become a sustainable open-source project. My initial fear upon hearing the release announcement was that this was intended exclusively as a salvo against IE8 on Windows, and that Google just wanted to further needle Microsoft. If they're willing to invest engineering resources in support for less-dominant platforms, it suggests very strongly that they really do want to drive the state of the art for browser implementations forward across the board.
- litewulf 18y agoI doubt that Google began building this to compete with IE8 when it was announced given how slowly they build stuff ;) I bet its more a happy confluence of events that so much browser news has been happening of late. I think most browser "creators" kind of had roughly the same ideas year(s?) back and decided to move in the same direction since everyone is using the same web and facing largely the same problems.