Webkit-gtk3 or webkit-gtk-devel

[Guido Soranzio]

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:

> I'm on the fence between subport and variant for gtk3.  Thoughts?


I think that providing two different ports, webkit-gtk and webkit-gtk3,
is the unavoidable solution as FreeBSD and NetBSD's pkgsrc did.

We could also follow strictly the naming conventions used by the ongoing
port of Gnome 3 by FreeBSD (<http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/marcuscom/ports/trunk/>)
and therefore provide two distinct versions also of evince3, gedit3, yelp3, …
They are building "gtk-engines3" but I tried to compile easily the
new "gnome-themes-standard" which replaces it and which provides the new
theme "Adwaita" much closer to the Aqua feel, including the
scrollbars without arrows: <http://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/38635/Portfile>.

Since many new developments are made with JavaScript, Vala and PyGobject,
the default support to Gobject Introspection should be non-questionable.
Compiling GJS should not be difficult, either. Note that the official
instructions for building SpiderMonkey refer explicitly to Homebrew
(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SpiderMonkey/Build_Documentation):
autonconf123 is required but their formula is definitely more streamlined
that the current portfile.

The support to WebKit2 could be offered only for Gtk+3, as Debian Experimental
(http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=webkit2&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all).

In summary, I think that MacPorts could simply limit to these three distinct ports:

webkit-gtk
webkit-gtk3
webkit2-gtk3


Guido

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