Hi,
I'm afraid we need to remove the Webkit-related plugins (Webhelper, Markdown Preview) from the Windows installer.
This is because Webkit itself is going to be removed from MSYS2: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/4318
For the upcoming release we could ship the previous version of Webkit along with the locally cached old version of ICU (i.e. we will ship ICU 61 *and* 62 in the installer).
But I personally would prefer removing the plugins from the Windows installer immediately for the reasons mentioned in https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/4318#issuecomment-436443226 and to prevent us from shipping two ICU versions which bloats the Windows installer even more.
If there are no objections, I will remove all Webkit-related settings from the Windows installer next week.
Regards, Enrico
On 2018-11-25 9:22 a.m., Enrico Tröger wrote:
Hi,
I'm afraid we need to remove the Webkit-related plugins (Webhelper, Markdown Preview) from the Windows installer.
This is because Webkit itself is going to be removed from MSYS2: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/4318
For the upcoming release we could ship the previous version of Webkit along with the locally cached old version of ICU (i.e. we will ship ICU 61 *and* 62 in the installer).
But I personally would prefer removing the plugins from the Windows installer immediately for the reasons mentioned in https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/4318#issuecomment-436443226 and to prevent us from shipping two ICU versions which bloats the Windows installer even more.
If there are no objections, I will remove all Webkit-related settings from the Windows installer next week.
Hi,
It would be nice to keep these plugins as long as practical, but I don't feel strongly about it.
Once removed, we should make an Issue on Github for all affected users to make duplicates of :) I think we got at least a dozen or so bug reports when the webkit-using plugins were removed from one of the Linux distros.
Regards, Matthew Brush
On 11/26/18 6:40 AM, Matthew Brush wrote:
On 2018-11-25 9:22 a.m., Enrico Tröger wrote:
Hi,
I'm afraid we need to remove the Webkit-related plugins (Webhelper, Markdown Preview) from the Windows installer.
This is because Webkit itself is going to be removed from MSYS2: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/4318
For the upcoming release we could ship the previous version of Webkit along with the locally cached old version of ICU (i.e. we will ship ICU 61 *and* 62 in the installer).
But I personally would prefer removing the plugins from the Windows installer immediately for the reasons mentioned in https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/4318#issuecomment-436443226
and to prevent us from shipping two ICU versions which bloats the Windows installer even more.
If there are no objections, I will remove all Webkit-related settings from the Windows installer next week.
Hi,
It would be nice to keep these plugins as long as practical, but I don't feel strongly about it.
OK, we keep the plugins in the 1.34 release, at least.
For future releases, I still would like to get rid of it if there is no progress on MSYS2 regarding Webkit.
Regards, Enrico
On 16.12.18 12:11, Enrico Tröger wrote:
On 11/26/18 6:40 AM, Matthew Brush wrote:
On 2018-11-25 9:22 a.m., Enrico Tröger wrote:
Hi,
I'm afraid we need to remove the Webkit-related plugins (Webhelper, Markdown Preview) from the Windows installer.
This is because Webkit itself is going to be removed from MSYS2: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/4318
For the upcoming release we could ship the previous version of Webkit along with the locally cached old version of ICU (i.e. we will ship ICU 61 *and* 62 in the installer).
But I personally would prefer removing the plugins from the Windows installer immediately for the reasons mentioned in https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/4318#issuecomment-436443226
and to prevent us from shipping two ICU versions which bloats the Windows installer even more.
If there are no objections, I will remove all Webkit-related settings from the Windows installer next week.
Hi,
It would be nice to keep these plugins as long as practical, but I don't feel strongly about it.
OK, we keep the plugins in the 1.34 release, at least.
For future releases, I still would like to get rid of it if there is no progress on MSYS2 regarding Webkit.
JFTR:
We kept the plugins until including 1.37 and now is three years later.
But now with the fresh Geany-Plugins 1.38 and the switch to x86_64 and GTK3, there is no way to keep those plugins running as there is no WebkitGTK library available for Windows/MSYS2.
Regards, Enrico