On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 2:50 PM Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro@gnome.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20 2022 at 12:08:36 PM +0200, Kalev Lember kalevlember@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed, no rush here as long as things continue working. I don't know what Michael's timeframe is for removing webkit2gtk-4.0, but I would expect it to be at least a year from now to give time for things to transition over.
My current plan is to retire webkit2gtk3/webkit2gtk4.0 at the same time that we remove libsoup 2: February next year, right after F38 is branched. This way, we can release F39 in November next year with libsoup 3 only.
This is a compromise between giving applications a fair amount of time to port, but also ensuring we do not keep an obsolete security-critical network library around any longer than we need to.
Note the only difference between webkit2gtk3/webkit2gtk4.0 and webkit2gtk4.1 is the version number and the libsoup version that it links against. Once you've handled libsoup migration, the WebKitGTK migration is just a matter of bumping the version number.
That's good to know, thank you for this context! I'm sure elementary OS devs will be glad that at least *one* of all these transitions should be simple 😅
Fabio