by kmihelich » Fri Sep 05, 2014 5:06 am
When they get their changes (which include a large pile of website-specific, self-described "hacks") accepted by the respective upstream projects, it will be included here.
The lack of peer review, no apparent open collaboration project site for their work (ie. GitHub), and the fact that the ~53k lines of patches between epiphany and webkitgtk will no doubt break on the newer versions packaged (and to be packaged) in Arch, means that it is not feasible for us to package this. It would also be irresponsible given the number of other packages that depend on webkitgtk.
They hacked support onto epiphany 3.8.2, while we package 3.12.1 right now. Our webkitgtk is at 2.4.5, theirs is at 2.4.1.
They need to become slightly more transparent in their work than a brick wall, support newer versions of the software, embrace public collaboration and peer review, and upstream their work. The fact that I had to chase down the pile of patches from the single debian repository where they are hosted is frankly quite ridiculous.
On another note, just buy an ARM system with a modern SoC, and you can run Chromium or whatever else like normal without any hacks.
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