[webkit-gtk] Breaking the API/ABI for 2.6

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

El jue, 05-06-2014 a las 17:27 -0700, Martin Robinson escribió:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos <cgarcia at igalia.com> wrote:
> >   - Limit the amount of API we expose to the GObject DOM bindings API.
> > We currently expose every single idl file that is added to the
> > repository, no matter of the API is just a w3c draft, or if it's
> > prefixed, etc. This is giving us a lot of work everytime any idl API
> > changes, and we end up with special cases to deprecate the old API and
> > add new one, for things that have never been used by anybody. So, I
> > propose to only expose "stable" APIs that are unlikely to change. I'm
> > not sure how to define that, though, maybe when the w3c spec is final or
> > whatever. I should also probably not expose anything depending on a
> > feature protected by conditional compilation and not enabled by default
> > in GTK+. I'm open to any proposal in this regard. Of course we would
> > remove all the deprecated API in the DOM bindings for 2.6.
> 
> We should really think hard about what API to expose and ensure that
> it doesn't change based on build options.

Exactly.

>  I also recommend that we
> take a close look at the API to fix any other long-standing issues.

You mean the DOM API? or all public API?

> Generally, this all sounds good to me, though it's a pity that we have
> to do an ABI/API break.
> 

Yes, but well, in this case the fact that many people haven't switched
to WebKit2 yet is an advantage.

-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
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