Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/libwpe: switch back to version 1.14.2

From: Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez@igalia.com>
To: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/libwpe: switch back to version 1.14.2
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:26:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240131102612.GD4009850@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43b543a2-6782-42f2-ac09-1c72d9c49d59@korsgaard.com>

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On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:43:23 +0100 Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> wrote:
> On 25/01/2024 23.33, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote:
> >> Hmm, this was bumped back in July before 2023.08-rc1. Is there no 1.16.x
> >> version coming?
> > 
> > Not anytime soon. Release 1.14.2 which I just made yesterday includes all the
> > fixes that are also in 1.15.2 -- usually we only do a new stable branch if
> > there are new features, and we haven't added anything to libwpe for a quite
> > long time.
> > 
> > Also, Yann asked on IRC whether the packages that depend on libwpe
> > (wpebackend-fdo, wpewebkit, gst1-plugins-bad) can use 1.14.x... Yes,
> > they can. For WPE WebKit we even have a compatibility table here:
> > 
> >    https://wpewebkit.org/release/schedule/
> > 
> > =)
> 
> OK, good - Applied, thanks.

Super :)

> > Maybe we should reconsider the versioning scheme, using suffixes for
> > development releases and release candidates ("X.Y-devN", "X-Y-rcN")
> > instead of even/odd numbering. It seems to cause enough confusion to
> > at least consider the change.
> 
> I don't really feel strongly about it. It is a bit "odd", but consistent 
> with the gtk/gnome stuff.

GNOME has been slowly trying to phase out the even/odd numbering scheme, but
it is true that most libraries are still using it, and so far it has been
mostly user-facing applications the ones that have adopted the new versioning
scheme [1].

Given it's not really a "problem", we actually prefer to avoid changing it
in the WebKit components to avoid churn. What I'll do is add a comment next
to the version string in the .mk files, like I did in this patch, next time
I update the other packages.

Cheers,
—Adrián

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[1] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/new-gnome-versioning-scheme/4235

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