On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Christophe Dumez >> <christophe.du...@intel.com> wrote: >>>> There are lots of concerns from EFL developers (me included) on how >>>> the development of WebKit-EFL is being done. The API of webkit2 even >>>> not being fully supported by EFL, as contrary to webkit1. There's only >>>> 1 developer that seemed to care and started to send patches to >>>> elm-web, so webkit2 can be fully supported. >>>> >>>> No surprise there was feedback asking for clarifications and why a >>>> simpler api couldn't be used. Now you come and say WebKit1 is being >>>> deprecated. -1000 here, until the day webkit2 gets fully supported in >>>> EFL and you start to interact more with EFL devs. >>> >>> The proposed date for dropping WK1 EFL from upstream is 8 month away. I >>> think this >>> gives a reasonable amount of time for people currently relying on WK1 EFL >>> to port their code to WK2 EFL. >>> If anything, this should motivate people to make sure all the components >>> work with WK2 EFL. >> >> 8 months is clearly to short from now is clearly to short. 8 months >> after WK2 EFL API is stabilized and "released" (I mean by that, that >> any API/ABI break of it will be forbidden). Then you can consider >> dropping WK1 EFL. Announcing that you will drop WK1 EFL when WK2 EFL >> is not even stable, is not a proper move in my opinion. >> >> Upstream EFL does use WK1 EFL in the 1.7.x branch, that will be used >> by E17 release later this year. This means that all distribution that >> do want to package EFL with a stable release for E17 will be depending >> on WK1 EFL. You can stop development, only do bugfixes, but removing >> it is clearly not a smart move here. >> >>> About interaction with EFL developers, I don't think we have any problem >>> answering questions related >>> to WebKit EFL (via this mailing list or the IRC channel) or fix bugs filed >>> upstream against WebKit EFL. >> >> Yes, you have. I am aware of the move to WK2 EFL since less than 3 >> weeks. If some nice Samsung guy didn't try to help EFL upstream to >> move away of WK1 EFL we wouldn't be even have any proper information >> and code here. At this point, the WebKit EFL people need to get more >> involved with EFL. It's not a matter of answering question, it's about >> using the same tool and do that efficiently ! If we don't share >> infromation more effectively, this kind of thread is going to repeat. >> I strongly encourage every developer of WK EFL to join e-devel mailing >> list and ping people there when there is important subject to bring in >> (like new dependencies, feature request, ...). I am now subscribed to >> this mailing list and will try to keep reading it, but that's not >> enough. WK EFL team should get more engadged with EFL developer in >> general. > > As a related note: although Ecore provides curl/http, WebKit still > uses the crap alien that is libsoup. Why not start the Webkit + EFL > adding the missing bits to Ecore_Con and then using it natively in > WebKit, instead of forcing glib-mainloop integration for nothing?
I can't but only agree and wish for that to happen soon. -- Cedric BAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
