[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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