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Notes on the F-Droid security warning

• RicoElectrico 4y ago
  F-Droid being alarmist? Nothing new under the sun.
• im3w1l 4y ago
  > However, building the WebRTC component is not trivial. It requires a lot of system resources, downloading many gigabytes of source code, and the process uses some Google-specific build tools. Ouch. I wonder how much of that is actually necessary to implement webrtc though, maybe a lot of it could be trimmed out? If the standard really is that complex, it's a pretty strong argument against it.
  • Sean-Der 4y ago
    This is a Google problem, not WebRTC. I have been using webrtc.rs on iOS. My build is ~2Mb and takes me ~3 min to build.
    • zinekeller 4y ago
      Yeah, Google really takes NIH to another level - you need to set up a different build chain specifically for Google-written dependencies.
      • Sean-Der 4y ago
        It’s a shame :/ I am a big fan of WebRTC. The conflation of WebRTC and Google’s implementation hurts a lot. Really excited to see how much webrtc-rs has progressed. The next 3 years are gonna be really interesting
        • zinekeller 4y ago
          I understand, but to be fair Google's implementation were the only one available for a long time that I fear that webrtc-rs would need to be bug-compatible with it.