Contribution guidelines & requirements

[bdbch]

What feature would you like to see?

Not a browser feature directly - but I'd like to know what kind of Software I need to have installed to be able to setup the project locally.

I tried setting it up on my Windows machine and it seems that I had to have 7zip installed. After installing it after winget install 7zip and adding it to my PATH I was able to get further.

Would make sense for new people to help with contributing to the project.

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Additional context

No response

[mauro-balades]

Yeah, so appart from having the following requirements, mozilla will take care of everything else:

• 7z
• Python3
• Nodejs

[bdbch]

Now it's stuck on the unpack step. Any idea why it's stuck here?

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> [email protected] bootstrap
> surfer download && surfer bootstrap

00:00:00 'engine/' is empty, it...
00:00:00 Locating Firefox release 128.0.3...
00:00:00 Using cached download
00:00:00 Unpacking Firefox...
00:00:00 Unpacking C:\Users\xxx\Code\zen-desktop\.surfer\engine\firefox-128.0.3.source.tar.xz to C:\Users\xxx\Code\zen-desktop\engine
00:00:00 Unpacking Firefox source on Windows (7z)

[mauro-balades]

It takes a bit of time to download, etc. It will take some time, specially on windows, around 10 minutes

[bdbch]

Still stuck on it (around 3h now) 😂 forgot that the process was running in the background.
I guess the extraction process is not even starting because my engine directory is still completely empty.

Do you use python for the extraction part too?

[mauro-balades]

Could you run it with --verbose?