Re: [Slackbuilds-users] webkitgtk vs. webkit2gtk

[Jim Diamond]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 15:03 (+0100), b...@shroggslodge.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

> Hi there

> I asked a similar question previously on linuxquestions. Maybe it will
> answer for you too.
> Best wishes

> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/what-is-the-difference-between-webkitgtk-and-webkitgtk2-and-can-they-co-exist-please-4175589659/

Habs (and others),

thanks for the clarifications.  Upon first scan of
https://webkitgtk.org/ and then a second scan as well, I'm not sure
this information is very clearly presented.  However, now I know.

Cheers.

Jim
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Re: [Slackbuilds-users] webkitgtk vs. webkit2gtk

[bch]

Hi there

I asked a similar question previously on linuxquestions. Maybe it will
answer for you too.
Best wishes

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/what-is-the-difference-between-webkitgtk-and-webkitgtk2-and-can-they-co-exist-please-4175589659/

Habs

On 22 September 2016 at 14:29, Jim Diamond  wrote:

> There are slackbuilds by the names
> webkitgtk
> and
> webkit2gtk
> which seem to be more or less the same thing ("webkitgtk" with no
> "2"), with versions of varying degrees of age.
>
> Can anyone (*cough*, Willy and Erik, *cough*) comment on
> -> why there are two versions in SBo?
> -> do we really want both versions?
> -> does one version subsume the other (except for some SBos which
>want one and some which want the other)?
> -> is it possible to combine these into one all-singing, all-dancing
>version which makes all the dependent packages happy?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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Re: [Slackbuilds-users] webkitgtk vs. webkit2gtk

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

> There are slackbuilds by the names
> webkitgtk
> and
> webkit2gtk
> which seem to be more or less the same thing ("webkitgtk" with no
> "2"), with versions of varying degrees of age.
> 
> Can anyone (*cough*, Willy and Erik, *cough*) comment on
> -> why there are two versions in SBo?
> -> do we really want both versions?
> -> does one version subsume the other (except for some SBos which
>want one and some which want the other)?

webkitgtk is the legacy version, while webkit2gtk is the new version.
Even though both have same 2 as major version, it has different APIs

we do need both as there are apps which requires the legacy version
while others have migrated to the new API.

both can be installed at the same time so it's safe to do it.

> -> is it possible to combine these into one all-singing, all-dancing
>version which makes all the dependent packages happy?

Building one package is already very time consuming. I can't imagine
people will have to wait longer to get a monstrous package in which 50%
of it are not used if they have a package that depends on one of them.


-- 
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo



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Re: [Slackbuilds-users] webkitgtk vs. webkit2gtk

[Andreas Guldstrand]

As I understand it, webkitgtk underwent major internal changes between
versions 1 and 2, and because of that, any project you write for
version 1 will be incompatible with version 2 and vice versa. Since
SBo probably wants to be able to support software built against either
version, it makes sense that both of them are around. And no, it's not
useful to combine them as far as I'm aware.

On 22 September 2016 at 15:29, Jim Diamond  wrote:
> There are slackbuilds by the names
> webkitgtk
> and
> webkit2gtk
> which seem to be more or less the same thing ("webkitgtk" with no
> "2"), with versions of varying degrees of age.
>
> Can anyone (*cough*, Willy and Erik, *cough*) comment on
> -> why there are two versions in SBo?
> -> do we really want both versions?
> -> does one version subsume the other (except for some SBos which
>want one and some which want the other)?
> -> is it possible to combine these into one all-singing, all-dancing
>version which makes all the dependent packages happy?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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