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Re: Making sense of webkitgtk and webkitgtk-next
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Liliana Marie Prikler |
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Re: Making sense of webkitgtk and webkitgtk-next |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Jan 2023 01:00:26 +0100 |
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Evolution 3.46.0 |
Am Mittwoch, dem 25.01.2023 um 12:59 +0200 schrieb André A. Gomes:
> Hi Guix,
Hi André,
> I noticed that webkitgtk-next is defined in such a way that its name
> is set to "webkitgtk", not "webkitgtk-next". This contrasts with how
> other *-next packages are defined, such as emacs-next.
>
> With respect to webkitgtk, if I run:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> guix install webkitgtk
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> the version assigned in webkitgtk-next will be installed. On the
> other hand, all packages that depend on webkitgtk will be build with
> version according to version assigned to %webkit-version.
>
> I think I'm correct since I've just installed cl-cffi-gtk (which
> depends on webkitgtk) and the REPL told me:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> WEBKIT> (format nil "~a.~a" (webkit-get-major-version) (webkit-get-
> minor-version))
> "2.36"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> That is, it picked up the version assigned to webkitgtk, not
> webkitgtk-next.
>
> My question is: shouldn't webkitgtk-next be defined with its name set
> to "webkitgtk-next" instead of "webkitgtk"? Thanks.
You are a little late to the party. #60864 fixes that issue and the
related issue of two different versions being used. I intend to push
it on Sunday, but might be convinced to delay doing so if
issues.guix.gnu.org continues timing out.
Cheers