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

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:29:52 +0200
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
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>> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
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>> Yes.  Unfortunately, it does not work with the latest webkitgtk.
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>> 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”:
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>> 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%
>> ...
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> 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’.