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Migrate to WebKit2 #698

Closed samdroid-apps closed 8 years ago

samdroid-apps commented 8 years ago

So as discussed on the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 thread, I have changed the patch to be a simple port to WebKit2.

@quozl, does this look like an easy to revert patch from the OLPC side?

quozl commented 8 years ago

No, it looks unnecessarily invasive. Further changes to the file will be expensive to backport. You have instead opportunities to;

API version independent coding is well worth the effort when both versions are expected to be in use.

samdroid-apps commented 8 years ago

Thanks @quozl.

API version independent coding is well worth the effort when both versions are expected to be in use.

It also adds a maintenance burden to the upstream. As discussed on the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 pull request, the consensus was not to adopt this option. Running WebKit1 is very risky in 2k16, and not something that SugarLabs should endorse.

I've updated patch as per your recommendations. Please review.