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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wxwidgets: Enable webview via webkit.
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:07:28 +0200
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Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> writes:

> On Sun 03 Apr 2016 18:54, Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
>> 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:
>>> >> 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%
>>
>> This sounds like a LGTM to me, and then we'll work on cutting down on
>> duplicates among the dependancies.
>
> WebKitGTK+ 2.4 is old and has security vulnerabilities; see
> https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/03/30/positive-progress-on-webkitgtk-security-updates/.
> Is there no upstream update that uses more recent WebKitGTK+?

Even the latest development version of wxwidgets (3.1.0) does not work
with a later version of WebKitGTK+.  The configure script looks for
webkitgtk-3.0 and includes “webkit/webkit.h”.  I don’t know how much
work it would be to use the latest version of our “webkitgtk” package.

~~ Ricardo