El sáb, 18-03-2017 a las 10:35 -0500, Michael Catanzaro escribió: > Hi, > > We have several forever-experimental features that have had zero or > almost zero progress in several years: > > * Accelerated 2D canvas > * GStreamerGL > * WebCrypto > > It's really not acceptable to keep prototypes of failed features in > trunk when there is no foreseeable path to ever finishing them. > (These > are in contrast to actively-developed experimental features, like > WebRTC, which are not problematic.) I would like to remove all the > code > for these features (except for the cross-platform WebCrypto stuff > that > Apple needs, of course). If someone wants to commit to actively > developing the features in the future, then and only then should we > bring it back. In the meantime, it's just getting in the way and > causing extra gardening effort. > > * Accelerated 2D canvas used to be enabled only for bots and tests, > but at the last hackfest we decided to disable it even there. So > nobody > is using it or working on it. It's dead code. Why keep it around? If > we > want it in the future, then we can bring it back. > * GStreamerGL and WebCrypto are enabled only for bots and tests, but > this is pointless as nobody is working on new test failures for > multimedia layout tests or for WebCrypto. Anyone who wants to work on > these in the future is going to have to go through all the tests > individually anyway. In the meantime, it's just making it harder to > garden. *Especially* WebCrypto, since our WebCrypto support just > keeps > getting more and more broken as Apple implements it properly on their > platform.
We plan to enable GstGL for 2.18, Miguel is going to fix the remaining issues. > If multimedia folks think they can get GStreamerGL stable soon, then > maybe we can keep it, but it's time to get serious about it. But I'm > pretty sure nobody has any interest in developing accelerated 2D > canvas > or WebCrypto right now. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > webkit-gtk mailing list > webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk > -- Carlos Garcia Campos http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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