Hi; all the applications you listed depend on WebKitGTK because they use web views, not because they need a JavaScript engine. For instance, Yelp uses WebKit to render HTML help pages; GNOME Online Account uses a web view to allow authentication to web services; Evolution uses WebKit to display HTML emails; etc.
If you have issues with WebKit on IA-64 then I strongly suggest you help out the WebKitGTK developers; you can start from the website[1], or join the #webkitgtk+ IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. [1]: http://webkitgtk.org/ Ciao, Emmanuele. On 23 September 2015 at 10:23, 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 -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ javascript-list mailing list javascript-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/javascript-list
