From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 10:40:22 +0200 Message-ID: <8760341amh.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87lgc3j29t.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527756020 3526 195.159.176.226 (31 May 2018 08:40:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 08:40:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nicolas Petton , Emacs Devel To: Bob Friesenhahn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 31 10:40:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOJ83-0000og-IQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 10:40:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOJAA-0002mW-FF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 04:42:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOJ8I-00027q-9Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 04:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOJ8E-0005w4-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 04:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wr0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c0c::236]:40350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOJ8E-0005u9-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 04:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wr0-x236.google.com with SMTP id l41-v6so32165052wre.7 for ; Thu, 31 May 2018 01:40:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:mail-followup-to:mail-copies-to :gmane-reply-to-list:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=M9WjL4QO1VZ9VItldrT6/u0jyBSAHjItYPF4l06Xl4o=; b=iMFKpRxzvi/HDQo6DwkRGs+VqYW9AIYYGbYrBytb2mq5KQVTwyzh404XDeN9Xzal3W 3qCaXsPvNWjMB53EtxiEv/weFE0I1ImdQkobTJ6owb7ZsZzazWB7aDezcIta/tTRJtda qM5dtZPswMh8JEgHUMhgBN39IT7zlCxzCC6vxV1JdaIWh4apCKOban2jjaivh8xlt7Kv l8XXBa2R/0D6Lvcmg9eYfCWKo6tkehpw5gyOJjHQVjcVgqichaUz6xFaw4JNhRVRbGcq SOycx3E+J0Jxg5cv/ugcE2ky9hW98NcPFzvB58mgRO/tfCbA+/aWx0TrTIp9xICXa/6M 7QUQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:mail-followup-to :mail-copies-to:gmane-reply-to-list:date:in-reply-to:message-id :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=M9WjL4QO1VZ9VItldrT6/u0jyBSAHjItYPF4l06Xl4o=; b=kSNa8cU5UpwLUn8ZW7ia2gwo3TfbgYMBCJDDZxMDyRj1RWhDTUcdAYCEEOHFlKFMNL cfqkdkVvzGaQd1ogIUK3yDhfhvkAnpE/19Ob0ykMxpVNT6k0bhb4kOOw1T4ufYzvZllN TKLzr64JKDLBAU4rpmTAtPKXLhGAuMh43aiSZXngK53q5MljTuCms4csUR7DKd6mV8gy GIGR7gHR9JMhCw3ATDPTva4+3HEI/W0IpbjqHMQxJnfGazMtx1gXCahct1+/xkrJv5NV A9gJEkxg1gfWY+9L1gsEXAL6bOGoh3OKkf7p5sOdTro4BAK9AtLOtJE2C/bDgmzvZAV0 G0FA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwemzPjdeOPXTCOoHW7bVsjmhXWUiDU7v0pb2raZ6JoW+XOHoEm+ MN4HyM0CM1X30q1f2MvISDv/AbBN X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKJ6+PJENMhSO+AiXMQL6QD1OAwXOERYRhh47+GPvOnwo4866ZMDyGoSR3gGpMyE40VNfG0IFw== X-Received: by 2002:a5d:408f:: with SMTP id o15-v6mr4180090wrp.133.1527756024939; Thu, 31 May 2018 01:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from rpluim ([149.5.228.1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e13-v6sm20943849wrm.45.2018.05.31.01.40.23 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 31 May 2018 01:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes In-Reply-To: (Bob Friesenhahn's message of "Wed, 30 May 2018 16:51:37 -0500 (CDT)") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c0c::236 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225841 Archived-At: Bob Friesenhahn writes: > On Mon, 28 May 2018, Nicolas Petton wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Version 26.1 of the Emacs text editor is now available. > > I tried configuring this new Emacs like > > ./configure '--with-xwidgets' > > on a somewhat old (but still supported) Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release but > encounter this error: > > configure:12632: checking for WEBKIT > configure:12639: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "$WEBKIT_MODULES" > Package webkit2gtk-4.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `webkit2gtk-4.0.pc' > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable > No package 'webkit2gtk-4.0' found > > There was no mention in the release notes that versions still in heavy > use were being abandoned and that Emacs could only be built on > brand-new Linux releases. That=CA=BCs a somewhat unfair statement: emacs 26 works fine on Ubuntu 14.04 as far as I know, it=CA=BCs just the xwidgets support that doesn=CA= =BCt, so in no way is there any 'abandonment' going on. The change should perhaps have been mentioned in NEWS, but I believe xwidgets is still classed as experimental, so perhaps not. > This system comes with libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev. It is prohibitive to > attempt to install anything newer since the whole software stack would > need to be replaced. Emacs moved to the WebKit2 API in October of 2016. I=CA=BCm assuming there were good reasons for not trying to support the older API as well. I=CA=BCm also assuming there were good reasons for nobody running Ubuntu 14.04 to attempt to build emacs with xwidget support since then. Robert