From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:19:33 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] webkitgtk: bump to version 2.16.5 In-Reply-To: <20170705200406.GB2822@momiji> (Adrian Perez de Castro's message of "Wed, 5 Jul 2017 20:04:06 +0300") References: <20170705143303.26282-1-aperez@igalia.com> <87a84izzff.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20170705200406.GB2822@momiji> Message-ID: <871spuzqyy.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Perez de Castro writes: Hi, >> Thanks! I've had bumping webkitgtk on my TODO for a while as there old >> version is affected by a number of CVEs. > You're welcome! I am a WebKit developer myself (mostly working on the GTK+ > port), and we have been trying that distributions ship WebKitGTK+ updates > promptly. At work we use Buildroot now and then, and we were just wondering > why an old version was still in use ? so I just went ahead and sent the patch > to update, hoping that it would go through :-) Great, thanks for doing that! Our webkitgtk package could definately use some love! >> I take it that you actively use webkitgtk? I personally don't. Would you >> be interested getting added to DEVELOPERS and looking after the package? > Sure thing, I can send a patch to add myself. For testing builds I usually > target the Raspberry Pi 3, which is what I have around always for testing. > Is this enough for me to try builds when making patches, or would you > recommend having some other board for development? Everyday WebKit development > is done on x86_64, so that's a very well tested target, too. I think testing on a rpi3 would be fine, thanks. > On a different note, I am also considering to submit packages in the following > days for the WPE WebKit port [1], which has a focus on embedded and has been > recently upstreamed. This will be more than a single patch because the port > has graphics back-ends selectable at runtime. Do you think it would be > difficult to get those landed? Sounds great - I don't see any reason why we wouldn't take them, especially if you would help maintain them. > (We have a few downstream forks of Buildroot with build recipes, but they need > cleaning up in order to follow the contribution guidelines, and it would be > nicer to rebase those on ?master? when/if it gets the WPE packages in :D) Ok, great! > [1] One of my work mates wrote a blog post about it a while ago: > http://blogs.igalia.com/magomez/2016/12/19/wpe-web-platform-for-embedded/ Yes, I saw the blog back then - Nice work! -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard