[OSX] Webkit.

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Sep 15, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote:
>
>> Me too.  Except for a few bugs (printer font too small when report
>> printed/image doesn't appear on invoice) on Windows, webkit seems to
>> be stable on win32 and linux.  I don't want to proceed to far
>> without nailing it down on the mac as well.
>>
>> For win32, I ended up getting a build someone (who is working on the
>> win32 port, I believe) had done, and we have just put that in a file
>> and reuse it for every build (go
>> tohttp://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ , open up 2.3.0 and
>> you'll see webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip).  Maybe we  need to do that for
>> mac as well.  If you get a mac build that works,  zip it up and
>> store it.
>>
>
> If you're developing against a frozen version of Webkit, no worries, I
> guess. I've got 1.1.12 patched and working, with a copy of the release
> tarball stored locally. The long term risk will come when Gtk changes
> their interface (which they've been talking about on gtk-devel instead
> of reviewing OSX patches, grr.) and Webkit-gtk-1.1.12 no longer builds
> against it. Of course, given how long it took Gnucash to move to Gtk
> +-2, that might be a feature...

True, but we can (and should) pick a particular version of Gtk that we
build against for 2.4 and just stick with it.  We could even
theoretically pre-build the deps, store them as Zips, and just re-use
them in our build process (it would certainly make full builds faster!)

Honestly I dont think we need to keep rebuilding the deps over and over
and over.  We should build the deps once (well, until we get them
working) and then re-use the (working) builds over and over....

Just my $0.02.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek
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