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

Andreas Müller schnitzeltony at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 16 06:27:23 PDT 2015


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Alexander Kanavin
<alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 06/16/2015 09:50 AM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> Before showing how, you need to explain why. Fedora has to package webkit1
> because they have a lot of apps in the Gnome stack that still haven't been
> ported to webkit2. Oe-core on the other hand has only one such app: midori.
Yes and midori is the only working browser in Yocto (I know): firefox
crashes since very long time for illegal ARM instruction and chromium
does not start at all.

I suggest we stop discussing my comment: You continue updating
webkitgtk and I'll try to get a working browser.

Andreas



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