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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:clopez@igalia.com" title="Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@igalia.com>"> <span class="fn">Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez</span></a>
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href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146680">bug 146680</a>
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title="NEW - Replace OpenGL{,ES}Shims with libepoxy, and #if USE(OPENGL_ES_2) with runtime checks"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146680#c4">Comment # 4</a>
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href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146680">bug 146680</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:clopez@igalia.com" title="Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@igalia.com>"> <span class="fn">Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=146680#c3">comment #3</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=146680#c2">comment #2</a>)
> > (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=146680#c1">comment #1</a>)
> > > Using libepoxy would be excellent, though we have a policy of not adding
> > > mandatory dependencies between major releases.
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> > What does exactly mean "between major releases" ?
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> > Does it mean that is ok to merge a patch that adds a dependency on libepoxy
> > on trunk, but is not ok to backport that patch to the stable series (2.8.x)?
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> Essentially we will not bump required dependencies until the 3.x series.</span >
There was a discussion [1] on the mailing list regarding our policy for bumping dependencies that resulted in an agreement of defining a more pragmatic policy.
<a href="https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy">https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy</a>
According to it, its now ok to introduce the dependency on libepoxy.
[1] <a href="https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy">https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy</a></pre>
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