Build dependencies (was: Re: Request: require glib2 >= 2.12)

[John Ralls]

On Mar 2, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Phil Longstaff wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:17 -0800, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Feb 20, 2010, at 10:32 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> WebKitGTK is another dependency that we need to assess, I think. They don't actually have a declared "stable" release yet, though they have a quasi-stable 1.15 branch. Their announced plan was to have a stable 1.2 out this summer, but their list has been  very quiet lately, so I'm not sure how they're doing on that goal. I doubt very much that they're worrying much about backwards compatibility, though, and if WebKitGTK requires gtk+-2.20, our efforts at backwards compatibility are futile. Does RHEL5 support building WebKitGTK -- or provide an RPM? 
>> 
>> Well, WebKit has fiddled their configuration so that Gtk will only work with X11. This is probably OK for now, I can continue to use 1.12 as long as they keep it on their website (or I suppose I could re-host it somewhere if they don't). But perhaps we should look into Gecko as the rendering engine for Gnucash-2.6. It's too bad, because Phil put a lot of work into WebKitGtk.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> 
> Well, I've been wondering about gecko for 2.4.  I still can't build
> webkitgtk/win32 properly, and there is a bug which prevents images on an
> invoice with file:// uri type from showing up.  There are only 3-4
> support files needed for a new renderer, and I have some time on my
> hands.
> 
> Do you know if gecko (gtkmozembed) has what you need on mac?
> 

Nope, but I'll try to build it and report back.

Regards,
John Ralls