[OSX] Webkit.

[John Ralls]

On Sep 14, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> writes:
>
>> (On the other hand, the Webkit rendering works fine and is
>> substantially faster than Gtkhtml. The downside is that Webkit itself
>> uses Objective C++, which isn't available for 10.4 Tiger, so there
>> will have to be a separate binary for Tiger.)
>
> Does this mean we couldn't build Webkit-GTK on a 10.4.8 machine?

I'm afraid so.

But there's a bigger problem: I had to patch Webkit-Gtk to get it to  
compile and submitted the patch. It's a matter of conflating Gtk and  
X11. (It's at https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28727) The  
response was to patch more extensively to ensure that Webkit-Gtk won't  
build without X11, and when I reopened the bug, the maintainer  
commented that Webkit-Gtk doesn't support the Quartz backend. As long  
as Gnucash will build against 1.1.12 we're fine, but if we have to  
move to a newer version, more extensive patching will be needed.

Regards,
John Ralls