[webkit-gtk] Deciding the deprecation path for WebKit1

[Alberto Garcia]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 05:28:43PM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:

> > hmm, there's also the jsc binary, I guess that even conflicts with
> > any other WebKit port, doesn't qtwebkit install a jsc binary as
> > well?
> 
> Does anything actually use the jsc binary? Could maybe just drop it?

Yes, there are people using it, I'm actually shipping it in Debian
after one user requested it. But I don't think there's anything to
worry about it.

> Having conflicting headers would actually be _somewhat_ okay for
> binary distributions such as Fedora or Debian, but source based
> distros and BSD ports maintainers are definitely going to complain
> when they can't install headers for webkit1 and webkit2 in parallel.

There's one more thing that we didn't mention: we are talking all the
time about distributions, but this will also affect GNOME itself:
since most applications are still using WebKit1, we need to have two
separate WebkitGTK+ tarballs in the GNOME jhbuild, much like we do
already with GTK+2 and GTK+3.

Berto