Re: Vespucci and Flexisheet : Webkit deprecated dependencies ?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Patrick,


On 12/06/2020 00:47, Patrick Cardona via Discussion list for the GNUstep 
programming environment wrote:
> I tried to make some apps from the Gap repository.
> While building Vespucci and Flexisheet, I was stuck with a dependency 
> I could not resolve : it seems to be a deprecated Webkit lib, because 
> the alternative Debian gave (1) was not usefull : 


it means you miss WebKit. Currently the only way to satisfy it is 
libs-simplewebkit which was never released because alpha-quality.

For Flexisheet, this is not a big issue, the library is only needed to 
display some Help.

Vespucci is a rudimentary browser which is essentially testbed for SWK 
itself.

About the only useful thing you can do now is browse the Reference 
documentation without kicking up Firefox. Useful if you are on a 
Raspberry or other similar system, but not much more.


don't hold your breath though, SWK is stagnant since years, unfortunately.


A port of WebKit however would be a "drop-in", the interfaces are the same.


Riccardo