[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 71611] [GTK] simplify ResourceHandleSoup

Thu Dec 8 05:16:21 PST 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71611

--- Comment #29 from Dan Winship <danw at gnome.org>  2011-12-08 05:16:21 PST ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> Is there any way to make this change somehow backward-compatible?

Short answer: No, we'd need to have both the old and the new code there, selected by ifdef or at runtime.

Longer answer: WebKitGTK follows the GNOME release cycle, and so it's easy for us to have unstable WebKit requiring unstable GNOME libraries. But the EFL port has no release cycle or stable branch yet, so any dependency change immediately impacts some downstream users.

This is going to continue to be a problem, because with jhbuild in the build system and on the bots, it makes it much easier for us to depend on newer glib/libsoup releases for bugfixes and new features.

Possible fixes: (1) EFL could drop libsoup in favor of curl, or (eventually) Ecore_Con_Url. (2) EFL could use the new jhbuild infrastructure to build libsoup, etc rather than depending on the system libraries being new enough. (3) EFL could fork the soup backend and not use new APIs in the fork. (4) ?

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