From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:23:32 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] WebkitGtk upgradation In-Reply-To: <20130228122855.6ceb26ce@skate> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:28:55 +0100") References: <512F0B0A.4050403@relinux.de> <20130228122855.6ceb26ce@skate> Message-ID: <87ehg04ofv.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 >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Thomas> Dear Will Newton, Thomas> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:22:27 +0000, Will Newton wrote: >> As far as I can tell DirectFB is not really supported any more. If I >> remember correctly the current WebKit in buildroot will build with >> GTK+/DirectFB but will crash on startup. The crash is fairly easy to >> work around but I think is a symptom of the fact that no one is >> running with this setup. >> >> Newer versions of GTK+ removed the DirectFB backend so it may have to >> be removed from buildroot in the future too. Thomas> My feeling is also that the DirectFB backend of Gtk has never been Thomas> seriously maintained over time. There are from time to time some people Thomas> who fix the issues, but then it goes on unmaintained for a number of Thomas> months/years, during which it slowly degrades into an unusable state. Thomas> I would therefore suggest that Buildroot follows upstream: get Thomas> rid of the DirectFB backend. If anyone really wants the Thomas> DirectFB backend in Gtk, then it should be fixed upstream. But Thomas> I don't think it should force Buildroot users to stay with old Thomas> Webkit/Gtk because of this. Agreed. I've added a comment for 2013.02 to warn users that it is deprecated: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=0e0e42176d4a46515aff577d9702d91208e27c5d -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard