[MacPorts] #65492: webkit2-gtk update?

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#65492: webkit2-gtk update?
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  Reporter:  RJVB         |      Owner:  mascguy
      Type:  request      |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
      Port:  webkit2-gtk  |
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Comment (by RJVB):

 Replying to [comment:35 drkp]:

 One reason not to target the "latest & greatest" version is that already
 v2.40.0 took quite an effort to get to build on older OS X versions, and
 when I finally got v2.44 (which I have on Linux) to install under 10.9.5,
 it turned out to KP my machine.

 My argument against QtWebEngine has always been that it's complete
 overkill to link in an almost full-fledged browser just to display HTML
 documentation or emails; this is increasingly becoming valid for WebKit
 too.

 > I'm not sure what you are proposing here exactly.

 One suggestion would be to split off a suitably recent version still using
 libsoup2 as `port:webkit2-gtk-4.0` or something like that in line with the
 .pc file naming.

 I'll admit that I've never tried WebKit's own software rendering, so I
 can't say anything about it, and I can't remember how straightforward it
 was to build WK against my Mesa+EGL port.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65492#comment:37>
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