www/webkit-gtk2 deprecation?

Kurt Jaeger pi at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 25 07:23:36 UTC 2019


Hi!

> 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. I'm sure that
> users of java/eclipse will not be happy about its loss from FreeBSD
> ports (I know I'm not). Can we leave it in the tree until a newer port
> of java/eclipse comes along?

We have 4.6.2 in the ports. Current version upstream seems to be 2018 12 R,
I don't know how this translates to 4.x.y ?

Is the debate about openjdk11 also playing a role here ?

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