[Sugar-devel] [sugar-build] Is webkitgtk becoming a barrier?

[Simon Schampijer]

On 05/19/2013 01:41 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> Hey,
>
> It seems like building webkitgtk is a bit of a pain for many people. I
> would like people feedback on how bad of an obstacle it really is and about
> a couple of possible solutions:
>
> 1 Have buildbot generate snapshots of the base system dependencies which
> most people are unlikely to want to modify anyway and upload those. It
> would probably be a system.img file which you would put in your sugar-build
> directory. With that file present, the external sugar dependencies would
> not be downloaded and built at all.
>
> 2 Officially support Fedora 19, disable the webkitgtk build there and
> suggest people for which building webkigtk is too much to use Fedora19.

I would go for option (2). Fedora 19 is not that far away [1]. Option 
(1) sounds like a lot of continuous work for supporting and you start 
digging you a hole for a while...

Regards,
    Simon

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/Schedule