Timing for 2.3.8

[John Ralls]

On Nov 22, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Phil Longstaff wrote:

> On November 22, 2009 05:55:52 pm John Ralls wrote:
>> On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote:
>>> There are a number of important fixes in 2.3.8 so I would like to release
>>> it soon.  Are there any new patches or modifications that anyone else
>>> needs to get in (currency trading accounts?  other?)?
>> 
>> Current SVN builds fine on OSX, so I'm ready. But should I build with
>> Webkit or Gtkhtml?
> 
> Yes, the other big issue.
> 
> When I started the webkit stuff, my ubuntu 9.04 had webkit 1.01, which worked 
> OK.  On windows, I got webkit 1.05 which has a few bugs (one blocker).  I 
> don't know what the status is now on macosx.  On ubuntu 9.10, webkit was 
> upgraded to 1.14 (I think) which requires a patch which is in SVN.  I want to 
> try to get an upgraded webkit on win32, but haven't gotten very far.
> 
> Should we revert to gtkhtml on win32?  Does webkit work well enough on macosx?
> 

I've got a successful git build of WebKit from 23 October, which is 1.1.15 something. It has some "adjustments", but I can turn those into a patch to run against the current release if you decide to stick with it for another round.

Webkit seems to work well enough, once I got all of the right bits in the bundle. I haven't done any testing of a Webkit build vs. a GtkHtml one to see if one is significantly faster than the other. It does force Leopard, and since I haven't gotten cross-compiling to work and my PPC box is on Tiger, I can't build a PPC version with Webkit. I haven't heard any complaints about that.

Regards,
John Ralls