[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 57820] [GTK] Export an API similar to WebKit1

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57820





--- Comment #17 from Carlos Garcia Campos <cgarcia at igalia.com>  2011-05-11 23:53:01 PST ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > (In reply to comment #13)
> > > (From update of attachment 92059 [details] [details] [details])
> > > View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=92059&action=review
> > > 
> > > > Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/gtk/WebKitWebView.cpp:21
> > > > +#include "WebKitWebView.h"
> > > 
> > > Why not just put the WebKit1 header in the include path instead of completely duplicating the header?
> > 
> > Because headers might be different in the future. The existing API in webkit1 will be kept in webkit2 to ensure the compatibility, but we might want to add new methods to the API that don't make sense in webkit1. For example, when we add a wrapper for WKContext, we could add webkit_web_view_new_with_context() to the webkit2 API.
> 
> For now, I think it would be better to explore sharing as much of the headers as possible. If we need to deviate from the WebKit1 header we could simply have a wrapper include.

How can we share a header if they are not exactly the same? both apis are supposed to be parallel installable even if the apis are similar. If we add an #ifdef WEBKIT2 to all headers, clients will have to pass that macro somehow when building.

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