www/webkit-gtk2 deprecation?

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 25 12:48:15 UTC 2019


On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:33:11AM +0100, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## Jonathan Chen (jonc at chen.org.nz):
> 
> > I notice that www/webkit-gtk2 has just been marked as FORBIDDEN and
> > DEPRECATED. While I'm usually for putting down unmaintained ports,
> > this particular port is a dependancy for java/eclipse.
> 
> And for more, e.g. x11-toolgits/wxgtk30 (with default OPTIONS).
> Removing the old webkit-gtk versions is a worthy goal, but doing
> than on such a short notice (and with FORBIDDEN) creates a rather
> large breakage. (But it sure gets people's attention, I give you that).
> 
> I second the motion to postpone the removal of the old webkits, and
> maintainers of affected ports should have some chance to fix their
> dependencies.
> 
wx* ports has been switch to gtk3 (meaning webkit2), so they should now build
again.

Best regards,
Bapt
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