Hi, thanks Olly and Gianfranco for your explanations. I now understand the issue better. I'm glad Gianfranco involved upstream because the Debian packages are currently our primary means to distribute a recent version of BOINC to volunteers using Debian and Ubuntu.
>> To switch to a maintained version of webkitgtk we need to migrate to >> using wxWidgets built with GTK3. The "rebuild" part is easy, but >> switching to GTK3 is known to cause incompatibilities with some programs >> using wxWidgets, or at least it's known it did - the problems may have >> been fixed by newer versions of wxWidgets and/or those programs. But >> we can't know without a lot of testing. >> >> The libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 maintainer suggested just dropping >> libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5 now, so I asked Gianfranco how that would >> affect boinc (I had no idea if it was a key feature, or some optional >> extra - it seems more the former) since if we drop it now, it will >> affect users of boinc from Debian unstable and testing until the >> transition to wx with GTK3 is ready to begin. So our options are to sit out the migration and have boinc-manager removed from unstable and testing in the meantime or disable the in-app browser for this period so we still have a boinc-manager package just without Notification support (or a rather limited text based support). I don't know what needs to be done to add boinc-manager again after the migration is finished if we choose the first option. Details and effort of the second option are better discussed on boinc_dev. >> There's wxHtmlWindow which comes as standard, but it's not a full >> web stack (e.g. no javascript, doesn't really support CSS IIRC). > this is something that might be better maintainable, thanks > > Even if we get to keep boinc and webview, switching to something different > might be desirable for the near future. Maybe this is an alternative for the migration time of wxWidgets to GTK3 which would at least offer a basic textual representation of notices. I don't see it as a long term solution. Regards Christian
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