Re: WebKit release cycle and dependency request

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le jeudi 17 avril 2008, à 10:06 +0100, Ross Burton a écrit :
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 10:51 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > What about waiting the decision for the WebKit as a GNOME external dep
> > and taking a consistent decision with this? :-)
> > 
> > My point is that I'd have to have a GNOME Mobile Platform that is going
> > to be totally different from the rest of GNOME...
> 
> When will this decision be made for GNOME?  With Ephy switching to
> WebKit at full-speed (when I heard they were switching I thought they
> meant changing the default backend, not removing gecko entirely) I think
> the direction the platform is heading is quite predictable, unless there
> are terrible problems in the near future.

Argh, I shouldn't have spoken :-) I don't know the reply for "when", to
be honest. I think it's more or less blocked by the status of a11y in
WebKit at the moment. Will move this topic at the top of my TODO list.

Vincent

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