Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 5 Jun 2013 14:27:55 +0200
From:      kaltheat@googlemail.com
To:        "Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng." <lkchen@ksu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-chromium@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: capsicum support plans
Message-ID:  <20130605122755.GB67864@sol>
In-Reply-To: <746998042.22481637.1370367030598.JavaMail.root@k-state.edu>
References:  <20130604092054.GA1185@sol> <746998042.22481637.1370367030598.JavaMail.root@k-state.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 01:30:30PM -0400, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > are there any plans to provide chromium for FreeBSD with capsicum
> > support? If I
> > am right Mr. Watson already did it for a previous chromium-version
> > and it was
> > "little" effort to do so.
> > It seems that since August, 2012 Mr. Dawidek is improving capsicum.
> > His work seems
> > to be funded by Google. Does this mean that they want to use it in
> > base-chromium
> > so that there is no need for FreeBSD-chromium-port to support
> > capsicum on its own?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > kaltheat
> > 
> 
> Hmmm, suppose I need to read up on capsicum...
> 
> Google is matching the funding from The FreeBSD Foundation on capsicum, with 
> Google working on the Linux version. Sounds like they want it for Chrome OS, 
> so ...
> 
> Well, there's a wiki entry on ChromiumCapsicum -- 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/ChromiumCapsicum
> 
> Suppose the question is who wants to do it, and will it be part of the 
> current port or as a slave port?
> 
> Lawrence

Well, this wasn't exactly my question. But if this means that there are 
currently no plans among the chromium-porters to implement capsicum-support, 
then you're right: this would be the next question ... ;)
Sadly, I'm not able to help with it, but nonetheless I would appreciate to
use it ...

Regards,
kaltheat





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20130605122755.GB67864>