Upgrade to chrome 60

[v3ss0n]

@rakuco Very nice to see crosswalk project moving onwards.

Can we upgrade crosswalk to chrome59 directly? It have many improvements : especially 20% average performance improvments for android.

[rakuco]

Erm, I don't think anyone has been working on Crosswalk for several months now, I only landed a patch or two to make sure it is still possible to check out the source code. Changing Chromium versions was one of the hardest parts of maintaining the project, so I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.

[v3ss0n]

should we try that? From the guides it seems quite straight forward for updating to downstream .
https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk-website/wiki/Downstream-Chromium

[rakuco]

You're more than welcome to try :-) You should look at https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk-website/wiki/Rebasing-our-forks instead though.

[v3ss0n]

thanks , sorry i was looking at wrong link.
I will give a try , had you tried before?

[rakuco]

Until Crosswalk stopped being maintained, yes.

[v3ss0n]

i am sorry , i thought it was not very hard .. are you interested to do if community can fund your effort?

[rakuco]

Not really, sorry, I already have a pretty demanding full-time day job :-)

[v3ss0n]

If anyone want to do that ? I will setup a bounty source.

[Altiano]

Chrome 60 has landed! It even has WebAssembly!

[mcfarljw]

I've spent a bit of time trying to get it rebased to Chrome 60. I ended up spawning a 32 vCPU Compute Engine Virtual Machine on Google to make compiling things faster. I've made progress, but it's still error after error and seems like it requires quite a bit of inside knowledge to really get it debugged and working.

[v3ss0n]

Wow , thank you so much @mcfarljw ,
There would be companies who would love to pay for your work , i would too .
Can you set up a https://www.patreon.com/ or indiegogo or bountysource ? I am going to attract other companies who i know using xwalk too.

[mcfarljw]

I'll post back with more information later this coming week. If I feel that I've got enough of a "proof of concept" then I'll get a funding source created for those of you who want to help out. Right now I've just been adjusting things, but that has involved a lot of changes that I don't fully understand or commenting things out with notes just to keep the build process moving.

[v3ss0n]

i think people from the mailing list can help , some developers still respond there .

[v3ss0n]

@mcfarljw any update on this ? if prototype is ready should start for sourcing.