Quick answers:
1) Yes, we hope to get on a more regular cadence with updates. This one
was particularly painful because WebKit moved to requiring C++11 meaning
it was dependent on the compiler upgrade. The next one might be somewhat
painful as well since they have moved from Qmake to Automake.
2) We've only thought about using Blink in a "Hmm, I wonder if that
might make sense some day" sense. We haven't given any serious thought
to it. Anton might have some thoughts on the sandboxing question.
-- Kevin
Mike Hearn wrote:
The changeset patch is 185 Mbytes and touches 11,688 files
including added, removed, modifiled files. I tried generating a
webrev, but it is just too big and unweildy to upload (over 1.6
GBytes).
A 185 megabyte patch!? That is ...... mind boggling. I don't envy you
guys!
Couple of questions:
1) I'm curious if there are plans to sync with WebKit upstream more
frequently from now on to try and reduce the pain of upgrades. As
WebKit is so complex and security sensitive, and not sandboxed in the
same way as Chrome, regular updates seem vital for security. Of course
this doesn't matter if you are just rendering your own content but for
displaying potentially hostile content, it seems important.
2) Have you considered using Blink instead, perhaps that way you would
get the sandboxing tech from Chromium? Or does the WebKit JFX uses now
have cross-platform sandboxing in it as well?
Thanks!
