[webkit-dev] WebKit2GTK+ breakage due to removal of WKPageResourceLoadClient

[Claudio Saavedra]

On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 15:27 +0100, Xan Lopez wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Mario Sanchez Prada
> <mario.prada at samsung.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> 
> (...)
> 
> >
> > If anyone could drop some light on this issue or provide some pointers to
> > better understand the motivation of this change, I’d really appreciate that.
> > I understand rolling r140285 might be not the best option at this point, yet
> > I’d personally rather not keep the WebKit2GTK+ broken for too long.
> 
> As has been discussed in the list (see
> http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-January/023255.html)
> the new development model for WebKit2 basically means this can happen
> at any time, and the broken pieces are for each port to keep and put
> back together. So I doubt reverting the patch is an option (in fact
> this is essentially the intended result of the new policy), we just
> need to figure out how to deal with this as fast as we can (which I
> think will be "too long" by any reasonably standard, but such is
> life).

For the time being it looks to me that the only sensible thing to do is
to just remove the WK2 API so that the port builds and then find a way
to provide a replacement. Not an elegant solution but this is the brave
new world we live in!

Claudio