Re: [PATCH] wxwidgets: Enable webview via webkit.

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:20:19PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:29:52 +0200
> > Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
> >> 
> >>  [...]  
> >>  [...]  
> >>  [...]  
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> >> Yes.  Unfortunately, it does not work with the latest webkitgtk.
> >> 
> >>  [...]  
> >>  [...]  
> >> 
> >> It’s quite a bit larger.  Should I try to move the webkit/webview stuff
> >> to a separate output?  Here’s the output of “guix size
> >> /gnu/store/js2mqmm3llc1ispcqll08c9s7nyi1i40-wxwidgets-3.0.2”:
> >> 
> >> store item                                                       total    self
> >> /gnu/store/js2mqmm3llc1ispcqll08c9s7nyi1i40-wxwidgets-3.0.2       1108.5    33.8   3.0%
> >> /gnu/store/yj7hx4r02g8nzgfna8pwsyqynxw0fkwy-webkitgtk-2.4.10      1053.5   137.3  12.4%
> >> /gnu/store/sqd3q1xq5fsbga00bwhghi9shi7xdaac-gtk+-3.18.2            724.2    45.4   4.1%
> >> /gnu/store/4s6q5z98smbjqarjjanghkl2jfbbmrwy-gtk+-2.24.28           697.1    35.6   3.2%
> >> ...
> >
> > currently wxwidgets is a dependant for 1 package. It'd be nice if the new
> > wxwidgets wouldn't depend on gtk3 and gtk2, but if that's what it is then I
> > don't think having a separate output would be a great solution.
> 
> But 1.1 G just for a GUI toolkit is a lot.
> 
> Currently wxwidgets’s closure is at 785 MiB, so that’d be a 40%
> increase.
> 
> There are references to two Cairos, Perl, etc.  Definitely, there’s a
> lot of room for optimization here.  It probably shouldn’t block this
> patch, but it should be high on the list of priorities IMO.
> 
> Ludo’.

This sounds like a LGTM to me, and then we'll work on cutting down on
duplicates among the dependancies.

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