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Cover letter [Buildroot] [RFC 0/3] WPE WebKit

Hello Adrian,

First of all, thanks a lot for your review of this patch series.

Quoted 9 lines · Adrian Perez de Castro

- The way I was hoping to do the WPE packaging for upstream Buildroot was to reuse as many bits and pieces as possible from the WebKitGTK+ packaging, and share code with the WPE packaging. For example: right now there is a BR2_PACKAGE_WEBKITGTK_ARCH_SUPPORTS configuration symbol, and in the WPE overlay I mentioned above there is BR2_PACKAGE_WPEWEBKIT_ARCH_SUPPORTS... ideally we would have a single BR2_PACKAGE_WEBKIT_ARCH_SUPPORTS, which gets used both by the ?wpewebkit? and ?webkitgtk? packages (the same would go for the logic that determines whether the target supports the JSC JIT, and others). I'll follow up on this in a different e-mail.

I have asked in the other e-mail as well: what is the relationship between all those Webkit "ports" ? Why do they duplicate the core of the Webkit code ?

I'm not sure where in Buildroot we would put those common ARCH_SUPPORTS options, that are used by several packages that have no dependency relationship.

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- I would like to allow building more backends than WPEBackend-fdo. More precisely, WPEBackend-rdk is a good option to use dispmanx on the Raspberry Pi directly, without needing a Wayland compositor.

So WPEBackend-fdo is a wayland backend ? Why is it named "fdo" (for freedesktop.org I guess) instead of the more obvious WPEBackend-wayland ?

Also, why is WPEBackend-rdk named after an overall "umbrella" project, rather than the actual technology used in the backend ? I see that WPEBackend-rdk also has Wayland support.

I'm confused.

Best regards,

Thomas

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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
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