Re: Vespucci and Flexisheet : Webkit deprecated dependencies ?

[Patrick Cardona]

Hi Riccardo,


On 2020-06-12 01:45:03 +0200 Riccardo Mottola 
<riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:

> 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 us
>
>
> 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.

So I removed the header calls about FSFunctionHelp in the GNUmakefile
and even in other headers where it was named, and I could make the 
FlexiSheet app.
Thank You for your 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.

So I shall not try about Vespucci  anymore.

> 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

Regards
--
Bien cordialement,
Patrick CARDONA