Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal: upstream the WPE port

2017-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Garen
I think the biggest consideration here is the problems we’ve noticed in the C API that have produced poor designs that we don’t intend to support going forward. Does the WPE port’s API need to be backwards-compatible in a source or binary way? Is it practical for the WPE port’s API to mirror

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal: upstream the WPE port

2017-04-21 Thread Alex Christensen
This is exciting news, Zan! I’m happy to see innovative new uses of WebKit. What kind of groups hope to use this new port? What kind of groups hope to maintain this new port? Will it be beneficial to the WebKit community to have their cooperative work? I see having more groups motivated to

[webkit-dev] Proposal: upstream the WPE port

2017-04-21 Thread zan
Hi, the WebKit team at Igalia would like to propose upstreaming the WPE port of WebKit, taking on the duty to maintain it alongside the GTK+ port. The WPE port started in 2014 as the 'WebKit for Wayland' project inside Igalia [1]. The port was derived from the GTK+ port, but avoided dependency