Hello all, My initial goal when contributing to Xiphos was to fix the failing CI builds Karl talked about in February, sadly though this has led back to what seems to be the single problem holding back a potential release.
Upgrading away from webkitgtk is critical since webkitgtk has been removed from all major Linux distros' repositories. The reason that can't happen seems to be a lack of Windows builds for webkit2gtk, it's successor library. As Greg said in this GitHub issue comment ( https://github.com/ crosswire/xiphos/issues/963#issuecomment-618181840[1] ): > we either need to ditch WebKitGTK entirely, or ditch Windows entirely, if we want to remain up to date and indeed if we want to remain packaged on major distros. Even setting aside the monumental task of actual implementing whatever change is needed, first a consensus needs to be reached which approach we take. In my opinion, the best option would be to use a stripped down, not even necessarily HTML-based, renderer in place of both webkitgtk and gtkhtml which is cross platform and well supported. Feel free to challenge me if that seems like a bad idea. I'm not aware of the full functionality required by Xiphos regarding a suitable rendering engine but certainly moving away from webkitgtk is something that we need to look into if we want to get a new release out. God bless, Scott. -------- [1] https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues/963#issuecomment-618181840
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