r18041 - gnucash/trunk - Merge webkit branch into trunk.

[Phil Longstaff]

One further thought: can MacOS run in a VM on linux or windows?  I did the original webkitgtk work on ubuntu 8.10 using webkitgtk 1.0.1.  On windows, I've been trying to work with the latest webkitgtk source (1.1.14) but have run into the same libsoup and other problems that Herbert has.  I don't have a mac, so I can't try a macos build.

Phil



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From: Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>; Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:49:21 AM
Subject: Re: r18041 - gnucash/trunk - Merge webkit branch into trunk.


I've never looked into the issue.  Is there a build farm we can use with different versions of linux distros so that we can check the build and limitations?  Otherwise, we're limited by what developers and testers have.  I suppose VMs could help with this.

Phil



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From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:07:40 AM
Subject: Re: r18041 - gnucash/trunk - Merge webkit branch into trunk.

Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de> writes:

> Herbert Thoma schrieb:
>> Derek Atkins schrieb:
>>> Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de> writes:
>>>
>>>>>>> That's the one combination I wasn't able to test (gtkhtml that doesn't use 
>>>>>>> gtkprint).  What platform are you on?
>>>>>> SuSE 10.3 (x86_64).
>>>>> What version of gnome, gtk, and gnome-print do you have?
>>>> pkg-config --modversion libgnome-2.0
>>>> 2.16.0
>>>>
>>>> pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
>>>> 2.10.6
>>>>
>>>> pkg-config --modversion libgnomeprint-2.2
>>>> 2.12.1
>>> Ah, yeah, Fedora-7 era GnomePrint (pre GtkPrint) libraries.
>>> As we're in the process of moving completely to Webkit (at least
>>> I hope that's the goal) I think it's /probably/ safe to ignore
>>> these old libraries.
>> 
>> Well SuSE may be a bit slow on the gnome side. This distro is only about
>> one year old.
>
> I revoke my statement. This coputer is still on SuSE 10.2 and the support
> period for this distro has ended ...

Ahh, yeah, like I said, Fedora-7 era.  I'm not sure offhand what version
of Gnome Fedora-8 or 9 has, but I would hope that we should support any
distros that were released by, say, May 1, 2008.

My only concern is going to be RHEL/CentOS.  The most recent
release/update (5.3) probably still has a relatively old Gnome/Gtk.  But
then again RHEL5 is old enough that it doesn't fall into the May 1, 2008
release-by date.  So I honestly don't think I care that much about it.
GnuCash 2.2 works there just fine, and someone could backport the
dependencies if they really want to run bleeding-edge gnucash.

So I think we should target Fedora 9 and equivalent Ubuntu and SuSE
releases from early 2008.

-derek

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