https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303912
Bug ID: 1303912
Summary: drop dependency on WebKit 1 Gtk bindings
Product: Fedora
Version: 23
Component: eclipse
Assignee: akurtako(a)redhat.com
Reporter: rhbz(a)genodeftest.de
QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: akurtako(a)redhat.com, andjrobins(a)gmail.com,
eclipse-sig(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
jerboaa(a)gmail.com, krzysztof.daniel(a)gmail.com,
mat.booth(a)redhat.com, rgrunber(a)redhat.com
Description of problem:
According to Michael Catanzaro, a developer of WebKitGtk, it is highly
discouraged to ever use WebKit 1 (webkitgtk package in Fedora) any more.
When running with Gtk2 backend, SWT is using this WebKit 1 Gtk binding.
Fedora's eclipse package should drop any webkitgtk dependency pretty soon. I
know that backwards compatibility is needed for some Eclipse plugins that
probably may require Gtk2 in-process with Eclipse/SWT. Is it possible to put
those outside the main eclipse-swt package? So "most" users won't see any
Webkit 1 Gtk bindings in Eclipse (and thus probably no Gtk2 version of
Eclipse). For those few who need that, they can install a separate (new)
package named e.g. eclipse-swt-gtk2.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
eclipse-swt-1:4.5.1-1.fc23
eclipse-swt-1:4.5.1-7.fc23
How reproducible:
always, see spec file
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