[webkit-gtk] Deciding the deprecation path for WebKit1

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

El vie, 30-05-2014 a las 17:24 +0200, Kalev Lember escribió:
> 
> On 05/28/2014 03:47 PM, Carlos Garcia Campos 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?

I don't think so

> >> Sorry, it seems I missed one conflict in my original email -- can you
> >> rename /usr/include/webkitgtk-3.0/ to /usr/include/webkit2gtk-3.0/ as well?
> >>
> > 
> > I don't think it's needed, webkitgtk-3.0 is the base include dir of the
> > package that contains a different directory for every API layer WebKit,
> > WebKit2 and JavaScriptCore. 
> 
> Sure, but the JavaScriptCore headers are going to conflict between
> webkit1 and webkit2, and same thing with webkitdom headers. Renaming the
> directory should be a transparent change for apps because they all use
> pkgconfig for figuring out include paths.
> 
> 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.
> 
> And last but not least, I am sure people who are porting apps from
> webkit1 to webkit2 would be very happy if they could keep both webkit1
> and webkit2 headers installed at the same time to make porting easier.
> 

In any case we would not rename /usr/include/webkitgtk-3.0/
but /usr/include/webkitgtk-3.0/JavaScriptCore

-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
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