[poky] [PATCH 0/6] 2nd pull request: UX, gtk+/apr, Edwin, Jan19, 2011

[Koen Kooi]

Op 21 jan 2011, om 13:47 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 08:57 +0000, Joshua Lock wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 09:21 +0800, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
> 
>>>> webkit-gtk 1.2.6
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Our poky seems never has stable release, and always use development 
>>> branch. Maybe we want some new feature? RP can comment. Another benefit 
>>> is development branch is under svn, so we can selectively pick some 
>>> modules instead of big whole repo. Given development branch, there is no 
>>> even/odd difference.
>>> 
>>> I have a plan to change it to stable release with the cost of long 
>>> download & compile time, but I'm afraid can't make it in this release cycle.
>> 
>> I think we need someone else to own downgrading this recipe for the next
>> release then, we can't commit to a 6month stable cycle with an unstable
>> software package. Do you have a handle on potential impact of
>> downgrading this recipe?
>> 
>> IIRC only the sato browser (web-webkit) is affected by this recipe?
> 
> webkit is an odd beast. My gut instinct says we're better off keeping up
> to date with webkit and the 1.3.7 version is ok in this case. I don't
> know how "old" 1.2.6 is and how unstable the 1.3 series is though. For
> what we use it for (web-webkit), 1.3.7 is probably fine?

The version is largely concerned with the GTK glue, not really with the underlying core webkit stuff. There is an SONAME change (webkit -> webkitgtk) in the 1.3.x series that would be nice to have, since it fixes namespacing issues when trying to use both webkit-gtk and webkit-efl. 1.3.x has been treating me well in angstrom so far.

regards,

Koen