Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add inox.

[David Craven]

> Tell me about it! I've been secretly maintaining a Chromium branch over
> at https://github.com/mbakke/guix/commits/chromium . It's frequently
> rebased.

Looks awesome!

> One thing that worries me about Inox is that version 53 is very old and
> likely contains known vulnerabilities. Do you know if they backport
> fixes? If not, I think we should try to stick with upstream Chromium.

This is due to me not having worked on it for a while. Inox are just a couple
of patches and default configure flags, but it's still chromium. I'm not too
concerned with inox, but *whisper* I got the impression that there where
FSDG issues with chromium. By applying a bunch of patches and calling it
inox instead of chromium, I think it could be considered a "good faith effort",
and the problem avoided until someone complains.

Another interesting collection of chromium patches would be:
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

> Also, Chromium 54+ have abandoned the "gyp" build system completely in
> favor of the "gn" build system. With it, many build flags don't work
> properly yet. See the FIXMEs in the HEAD of the above branch :-)

Good to know, thanks for the heads up!

> Anyway, great work so far, hopefully we can join efforts and get this in
> somehow. I'm not happy with the current build, the 3rd party stuff
> should be removed in a source snippet, and some sites tend to just
> "hang" infrequently, likely from one of the patches (IPv6 probe?).

Sounds good! We should definitely use your package as a base...