[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 drkp):

 I'm not sure this discussion is productive. I am trying to get webkit2-gtk
 onto a more recent version for the sake of several ports I care about.

 It may be that webkit is overkill for displaying documentation, but it's
 what these applications are using. We're not going to change that in this
 ticket. It may be that Mesa+EGL or Angle can give us better rendering
 performance. We can address that later if it matters.

 Intentionally limiting everyone to an older webkit version for the sake of
 very old OS versions seems like a terrible idea to me. That just creates
 more work for the next update, while also preventing us from taking
 advantage of upstream bug fixes and security fixes. Given the current
 state of this port, that is exactly what I am trying to get away from.
 (And for the record, so far I have verified my portfile for 2.52 builds on
 every major release at least back to 10.15.)

 It would be possible to provide an older version as a separate port, sure.
 But keeping one version of webkit working has proven enough of a challenge
 that I'm not thrilled about the idea of having another.

 Is there an actual use case you're looking to support with a libsoup2
 version? As I said above, _every_ working port we have that uses
 webkit2-gtk can be patched or updated to work with 2.52 and libsoup3, and
 I was even able to fix and update some of the currently-broken ones.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65492#comment:38>
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