[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 242407] New: [WPE] Decide if WPE will continue to support 1.0 and 1.1 API versions

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Wed Jul 6 12:41:46 PDT 2022


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242407

            Bug ID: 242407
           Summary: [WPE] Decide if WPE will continue to support 1.0 and
                    1.1 API versions
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WPE WebKit
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: mcatanzaro at gnome.org
                CC: bugs-noreply at webkitgtk.org
            Blocks: 210100

WebKitGTK is developing a new webkit2gtk-5.0 API version with compatibility with GTK 4. As part of this, we'll surely want to introduce a corresponding WPE API as well, likely either wpewebkit-1.2 or wpewebkit-2.0, to stay in match with GTK.

WebKitGTK needs to retain compatibility for its existing API versions webkit2gtk-4.0 and webkit2gtk-4.1 indefinitely, so the original code is not going anywhere. Accordingly, it's not very hard to keep wpewebkit-1.0 and wpewebkit-1.1 working. However, since fewer applications use WPE WebKit, I bet we can get away with removing the older APIs and forcing applications to upgrade to the latest API version, which will simplify things a little. I suspect most people using WPE only have a small number of applications that they care about. The differences between API versions should not be very big (see bugs blocking bug #210100), and it should probably be an easy upgrade for most applications.

This bug report is for WPE port maintainers to discuss and let me know what you want to do: whether to keep the existing wpewebkit-1.0 and 1.1 APIs, or get rid of them. (Also, if you have a preference between -1.2 vs. -2.0 API version, bikeshedding is welcome.)


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210100
[Bug 210100] [META][GTK][GTK4] Support GTK4
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