[OSX] Webkit.

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> 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.

Ummm....

That seems counter-productive!  Did they give a reason for making
that restriction?  *sigh*

Do you want me to get involved with this issue?

It seems pretty bad that you supply a patch to get it webkit-gtk working
with Gtk-Quartz and they make it not-work!

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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