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Re the building, if you're on mac with homebrew, it should be as easy as:

brew install --HEAD servo/servo/servo

and

servo -w http://wikipedia.org

Keep in mind though, servo has a long way to go.

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What about for using it as a headless browser with javascript and Rust manipulation of the DOM?

We have a http proxy that would like to analyze html responses and rewrite parts of the page.

Is servo ready for that or should we use something like PhantomJS?

Thanks!

Side note if this is something you're interested in doing, you might want to check out the FastBoot project from the Ember camp. It's built on top of non-Ember-specific libraries that let you do server-side DOM manipulation without needing something like PhantomJS, just node.

I'm not involved with the project...just an admirer. I do know that it has a headless option in the command line invocation.

Is it a compiled bottle? I remember last time trying Rust I had to wait maybe half an ahour to compile everything. I think it was the time when servo was compiling their own version of Rust :)

Servo now downloads a Rust snapshot. But you still have to compile everything else needed to build Servo.

Getting this error:

==> python -c import setuptools... --no-user-cfg install --prefix=/private/tmp/servo20160225-7643-fode0q/_vedir --single-version-externally-managed --record=installed.txt Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named setup tools

UPDATE:

brew update

brew uninstall --force python

brew install python

solved it.

Check

https://github.com/servo/homebrew-servo/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...

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