Re: Evolution 3.5.90 vs WebKit 1.9.90

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

On 08/24/2012 08:24 PM, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 18:46 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
>> here I'm for the the usual release issue with evolution :) This time
>> we have a problem building against WebKit, i.e.
>>
>>   * empathy and epiphany need freshly released webkit 1.9.90
>>   * evolution fails to build against webkit 1.9.90, see [1]
>>
>> Any idea/suggestion?
> So in other words this is another webkitgtk 1.9.x API break?
I asked a little about that, and webkitgtk people told me that they
already clarified this on webkit-gtk list. So about that:

"GObject DOM bindings are auto-generated, the API did not change because
of a commit we made."
>
> I don't mind patching Evolution to cope with the API changes, but I also
> don't like finding out about it this way.  I typically don't track the
> latest release since WebKit is such a PITA to build.
>
> A patch from the webkitgtk team would be appreciated when APIs are
> broken, or at least a heads up to desktop-devel-list.

More C&P:
"At some point we'll try to make a tool that tracks API changes between
releases to catch this kind of thing,"

The full thread:
http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2012-August/001217.html

The specific answer I C&P from:
http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2012-August/001219.html

Best regards

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Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias