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

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> You might recall that I filed a bug against WebKitGtk on this last
> summer, and got the rather tart reply that "we don't support Quartz
> for plugins" and a changeset that removed the distinction between
> MacOSX and other Unices in the file that caused trouble. I managed to
> patch around that (which is why I'm able to ship with WebKit
> 1.12). They've done more work, though, to extend the exclusion of
> Quartz and my patch doesn't apply against 1.1.15 (nor git master).
>
> I could probably write a new patch to get 1.1.15 working, but it seems
> to me that it's not really a viable long-term strategy.

Hmm...  I wonder why they refuse to accept it?
* grumbles at devs that wont accept reasonable patches *

How hard would it be to up-port your patch to 1.1.15?

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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