Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser

Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser by Kim_Bruning on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @10:20AM (#40856983)

Hrrm.

   legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.ladybird (0-unstable-2024-06-04)

Cool! Let's see if I can read HN.

  nix run nixpkgs#ladybird

  ...

  502144.831 Ladybird(1297933): WebContent process crashed!
  502144.831 Ladybird(1297933): WebContent has crashed 5 times in quick succession! Not restarting...

  ...

I didn't expect it to work very well yet in a distro, so that's ok. It's cool enough that nix(os) has already started tracking it.

I'll check back every few months and see how it's going!

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Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser by awesomekling on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @11:04AM (#40857380)

Please don't trust random distro packages of Ladybird, we have no idea what they're packaging, but it's unlikely to be current, and not something we can help you with.

I wish distros would not package pre-alpha software, since the only thing it accomplishes is giving people a bad first impression of something that isn't ready :(

If you want to mess with Ladybird, build it from the source at https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird :)

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Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser by jchw on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @06:13PM (#40860929)

I think the only reason why Nixpkgs has a derivation for Ladybird is because it is not really possible to build Ladybird (or really almost any software) the "obvious" way in NixOS. What Nixpkgs provides is more like build recipes that work within Nix's sandboxed environment with optionally cached binaries, rather than actual packages. Because of that, it's kind of awkward: no specific decision is ever made to publish packages for some unfinished software, it's just that the act of writing a derivation kind of implicitly does do that.

Clearly, some upstreams do not appreciate that NixOS provides non-standard or sometimes-unfinished versions of their software, but it's either that or the software is essentially unusable and uncompilable on NixOS.

I do wonder if there is a potential for productive compromise, though. Maybe it would be desirable to have a QMessageBox warning to the user at startup that the distribution is unsupported and bugs should not be reported upstream. I think that the folks maintaining the Ladybird derivation would be happy to take feedback into account.

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Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser by fgaz on Saturday July 06, 2024 @07:33AM (#40889777)

As with many other packages, on NixOS you have to enable the relevant option: https://search.nixos.org/options?show=programs.ladybird.enab...

If that doesn't work, please open an issue in the nixpkgs bug tracker.

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