I'm not sure I understand your concern (I'm a JS chap) but GJS is basically SpiderMonkey 24 ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey/Introduction_to_the_JavaScript_shell ) with its own kind of module system which points directly to some internal binding based on GObject Introspection ( https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GObjectIntrospection?action=show&redirect=GObjectIntrospection) which makes GJS simple enough to script with, interacting with other modules, *including* if imported WebKitGTK (or even better WebKit2GTK).
I don't think you can substitute WebKitGTK with GJS, also because WebkitGTK is used by PyGTK and any other language based on GObject bindings. I'm pretty sure I haven't answered your question, but maybe I've made some clarification accordingly my (early) understanding. Best Regards On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Émeric MASCHINO <emeric.masch...@gmail.com > wrote: > [Please CC me, I'm not (yet?) subscribed to this list] > > Hi, > > If I understand correctly, Gjs or Seed provide JS implementation for > the GNOME project [1]. It seems that Seed is dead [2] and that many > GNOME components have adopted Gjs, including GNOME 3's most central > one: GNOME Shell. > > I'm not familiar enough with the GNOME project, nor JS development > (I'm a C++ guy), so I'm probably missing the point, but how is it that > some GNOME applications have dependencies neither on Gjs, nor Seed, > but directly on WebKit-GTK? Namely, Sushi, Yelp, Evolution, Shotwell, > Empathy, GNOME-Online-Accounts (G-O-A) and Epiphany directly require > WebKit-GTK and GNOME-Contacts and Evolution-Data-Server indirectly > require WebKit-GTK if G-O-A is enabled [3]. > > I'm asking this because, although WebKit-GTK never worked on the ia64 > arch (whereas Spidermonky do), WebKit-GTK >= 2.8 simply can't be built > on ia64 nowadays. This is blocking for GNOME >= 3.16 because of the > above-listed GNOME applications that now require an WebKit-GTK >= 2.8. > However, even if WebKit-GTK >= 2.8 could be built successfully on > ia64, GNOME applications based on WebKit-GTK would badly crash in the > end. I've summarized the situation in this Gentoo's BR [3], Gentoo > being the last (to my knowledge) Linux distribution supporting ia64. > > So, questions are: is the WebKit-GTK dependency in some GNOME > applications expected? Why not depend on Gjs, as it seems that Gjs is > GNOME's default JS implementation? > > Thanks, > > Émeric > > > [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/JavaScript > [2] > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/javascript-list/2015-March/msg00002.html > [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555504 > _______________________________________________ > javascript-list mailing list > javascript-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/javascript-list >
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