Re: Making sense of webkitgtk and webkitgtk-next

[Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>]

Am Mittwoch, dem 25.01.2023 um 12:59 +0200 schrieb André A. Gomes:
> Hi Guix,
Hi André,

> I noticed that webkitgtk-next is defined in such a way that its name
> is set to "webkitgtk", not "webkitgtk-next".  This contrasts with how
> other *-next packages are defined, such as emacs-next.
> 
> With respect to webkitgtk, if I run:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> guix install webkitgtk
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> the version assigned in webkitgtk-next will be installed.  On the
> other hand, all packages that depend on webkitgtk will be build with
> version according to version assigned to %webkit-version.
> 
> I think I'm correct since I've just installed cl-cffi-gtk (which
> depends on webkitgtk) and the REPL told me:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> WEBKIT> (format nil "~a.~a" (webkit-get-major-version) (webkit-get-
> minor-version))
> "2.36"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> That is, it picked up the version assigned to webkitgtk, not
> webkitgtk-next.
> 
> My question is: shouldn't webkitgtk-next be defined with its name set
> to "webkitgtk-next" instead of "webkitgtk"?  Thanks.
You are a little late to the party.  #60864 fixes that issue and the
related issue of two different versions being used.  I intend to push
it on Sunday, but might be convinced to delay doing so if
issues.guix.gnu.org continues timing out.

Cheers