epiphany webkit in fedora

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Tue Apr 29 15:22:11 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 15:30 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 15:05 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Yup, I've read that WebKit is going to be the only one in Epiphany 2.24,
> > > too. Is it already in gnome svn? If so, I would suggest to switch to
> > > WebKit in rawhide (not F-9) as soon as possible to allow more testing
> > > (both of WebKit, which seems to have quite a lot of bugs still, and
> > > Epiphany). Anything I can help with? As epiphany is one of my most used
> > > applications (with gnome-terminal and evolution), I might be interested
> > > in co-maintaining it for Fedora, if needed.
> > 
> > Not even close to usable right now:
> > http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/WebKit/TODO
> > Which is why it's not in yet.
> > 
> > And it doesn't do plugins yet either.
> > 
> 
> IMHO, these bugs are show-stoppers for stable release (and even beta
> release), but not for the raw state of the pre-F-10 rawhide (where
> people expect that many things will *not* work).

And then file a gazillion duplicate bugs upstream and downstream. If
people want to test this stuff, they can build from source. Given that
there's another ~5 months' worth of development left before the next
stable release, epiphany with the webkit backend can wait for a few
months.




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