[yocto] [OE-core] Webkit-gtk will be updated to latest upstream; midori browser to be replaced with Epiphany

[Andreas Müller]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Alexander Kanavin
<alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 06/15/2015 05:24 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
>> If you actually compare the build dependencies, you'll see that Midori
>> and Epiphany are actually almost identical.
>>
>> We need to upgrade WebKit as the release we're shipping has known
>> security flaws and is very old - and the community is rightly moaning
>> about that.  However Midori doesn't build with a recent WebKit... if you
>> have an alternative solution then your thoughts are welcome.
>
>
> Also, Webkit2 itself ships with a tiny browser wrapper called MiniBrowser:
>
> http://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2011/11/04/webkit2-gtk-minibrowser-ported-to-gtk-api/
>
> That may be enough for many people's needs, and they can simply not include
> Epiphany into their images if it's too big and bloated or whatever.
>
>
How about doing same as others do e.g fedora [1-2]: Keep two version
of webkit-gtk based on same recent code:

* gtk2/webkit1
* gtk3/webkit2

Andreas

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/webkitgtk.git/tree/webkitgtk.spec
[2] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/webkitgtk3.git/tree/webkitgtk3.spec