[webkit-gtk] Does webkit-2.8.0 also have webkit1 bindings?

Martin Robinson mrobinson at webkit.org
Mon Apr 13 16:10:21 PDT 2015


On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 3:45 PM, David Ronis <David.Ronis at mcgill.ca> wrote:
> I'm trying to build webkit-gtk+-2.8.0 (which I gather is webkit2) as
> part of my build of gnome-3.16.1, to make it worse, on a slackware
> linux box.
>
> My problem is that some of the gnome-programs still require a webkit1
> API.  In looking at the 2.8.0 components, I notice that there is are
> Source/WebKit and Source/WebKit2 directories.  The former seems to be
> unused and only libwebkit2 libraries are installed.

I believe that the 2.6 and newer no longer has WebKit1. You can get
WebKit1 by installing the latest release in the WebKIt 2.4 series.
See:

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2014-March/001821.html

and also

http://webkitgtk.org/2014/09/24/webkitgtk2.6.0-released.html

--Martin


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