On Thu, Sep 15 2022 at 08:49:39 AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro
<mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had a pet idea to change the API version to -4.5, so that we could
sync up with GTK 5 with -5.0, but this didn't seem popular upstream.
So now I'm toying with changing to -5.1 or -6.0 just to avoid
confusion caused by webkit2gtk-5.0 looking almost the same as
webkitgtk-5.0.
We discussed this upstream and settled on webkitgtk-6.0 as the name for
the GTK 4 API, to give slightly more distance between the GTK and
WebKitGTK API versions.
There was some interest in adding the GTK API version to the WebKitGTK
API version, like you suggested, but it's a little complicated and
there wasn't enough support to make this change.
I want the downstream package names to match the upstream API names as
closely as possible, so we can minimize the differences between Fedora
names and other distros' names. Being different than other distros is
most confusing of all!
Ideally we would exactly match the upstream name, webkitgtk-6.0. But
Kalev has pointed me to:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Naming/#multiple
as the guideline we followed when deciding to omit the hyphen.
Specifically:
"If the base package name does not end with a digit, the version MUST
be directly appended to the package name with no intervening separator."
So that's how we wound up with webkit2gtk4.0, webkit2gtk4.1,
webkit2gtk5.0 (current package name), and now webkitgtk6.0 (future
package name, to replace webkit2gtk5.0 in March). I'm not sure whether
that guideline is actually a good idea, as it results in our names
differing from other distros', but it's close enough.
One more note: the webkit2gtk5.0 package will disappear within the
lifetime of Fedora 37, so please don't actually use it. For now it's
required by Builder and gnome-initial-setup, which will require special
intervention when we update to WebKitGTK 2.40 in March. The goal is for
the API to be stable in WebKitGTK 2.40, so holding off until then will
help avoid trouble.
Michael
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