Action Item #523
Retest webkit suitability
| Status: | In Progress | Start date: | 29 Apr 2016 | ||
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | |||
| Assignee: |  Hammel | % Done: | 90% | ||
| Category: | 04 - Root File System | ||||
| Target version: | 1.0 - Atreides | ||||
| Severity: | 04 - Low |
Description
Webkit support for GTK+ has been bumped to WebKit 2.4 with a new package. This is available in the latest Buildroot (2016.02). We're at 2015.02. So a bump in Buildroot may provide a webkit enabled surf package, meaning we could replace the C interfaces for appmgr and videofe with web-enabled interface, making icon handling easier and providing a more developer-friendly API for extending these.
We need to investigate if bumping Buildroot to 2016.02 and re-adding the surf package (custom package) will now work. Previously this didn't work. But the reasons I suspected for it not working appear to be fixed if you look at the list of changes associated with webkit in Buildroot.
History
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Updated by Hammel about 2 years ago
- Category set to 04 - Root File System
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Assignee set to Hammel
- Target version set to 1.0 - Atreides
- % Done changed from 0 to 90
- Severity changed from 03 - Medium to 04 - Low
I didn't find much value in using webkit, mostly because of the overhead it brings (lots of build dependencies, etc.). So after testing I checked the changes into a new branch in the pibox repo: "mjhammel/br-2016-05". The build works on hardware, if I remember correctly. It just didn't have any added value with respect to webkit.
I can revisit this later when I migrate to a newer release of buildroot (like, say, the 2017.02 release).