On 08/28/2016 07:21:08 PM Sun, Jack Ostroff wrote:
...
I must say that the version numbering of of webkitgtk (and which version of
gtk+ it works with) has been somewhat confusing, which doesn't help. Gentoo
separates by slots. Slot 2 and slot 3 both have 2.4.11 but different builds.
Slot 4 has 2.10.9 (stable) and 2.12.3 (currently marked testing).
Would it be reasonable (and reasonably possible) as a first step, to add a
warning if you choose the older version that it is considered deprecated and
probably has un-patched security vulnerabilities, especially depending on the
distribution? Also to make the gtk3 branch default to webkit2.
It seems to me there are two sorts of folks who compile balsa from source.
First is those who are compiling for inclusion in a distribution. Hopefully,
they will pay more attention to security issues, and if that distribution has
an old original webkit, they will use the new one with the gtk3 branch. Of
course that might depend on when we release the gtk3 version as master, and
relegate the old master to either deprecated or bugs only. The other folks who
compile, are likely looking for the latest and greatest (or on a distro like
Gentoo) and will likely already be on gtk3 branch with webkit2.
However, if nobody else has any reason to keep the old option around any
longer, then go ahead and just remove it. (I still need to recompile webkit2
(I somehow think it has a different name on Gentoo, but I'm on vacation, and
don't have access to my main PC) since I accidentally deleted it, and am for
the interim actually using the old webkit.
Yes, the numbering is kinda hard to follow! If you configure --with-html-widget
= webkit2, Balsa (gtk3 branch) looks for webkit2gtk-4.0.pc for the pkg-config
info. On Fedora 24, that file is provided by
webkitgtk4-devel-2.12.4-1.fc24.x86_64. So you could use that configure option
if your WebKitGTK package provides webkit2gtk-4.0.pc .
I haven't built WebKitGTK from source, but my impression was that the build
would provide both the old and the new widget, and presumably both *.pc
files--is that not the way it works?
Peter
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