[webkit-gtk] Deciding the deprecation path for WebKit1

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

El lun, 02-06-2014 a las 09:55 +0200, Alberto Garcia escribió:
> 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.

In this case we can just add a new "module" webkit1 that uses webkitgtk
2.4.x while the webkit module uses 2.5.x. And then update the modules
that depend on webkit1.

> Berto
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