On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 2:50 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20 2022 at 12:08:36 PM +0200, Kalev Lember > <kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
