Re: Re: Build error with The name `enable_javascript_markup' does not exist in the context of `WebKit.Settings?' when trying to build for buster-backports

On വെ, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:47, [email protected] wrote:
> The compilation error happens because the symbol 
> `enable_javascript_markup`
> property isn't present in vala vapi files, which means that 
> valac-vapi has to be
> updated, currently the version in buster is 0.42. For a grep of 
> `enable_javascript`,
> I get the following:
> 
> $ grep enable_javascript /usr/share/vala-0.42/vapi/webkit2gtk-4.0.vapi
> 		public bool get_enable_javascript ();
> 		public void set_enable_javascript (bool enabled);
> 		public bool enable_javascript { get; set construct; }
> 
> And for the same, with vala 0.46 on testing:
> 
> $ grep enable_javascript /usr/share/vala-0.46/vapi/webkit2gtk-4.0.vapi
> 		public bool get_enable_javascript ();
> 		public bool get_enable_javascript_markup ();
> 		public void set_enable_javascript (bool enabled);
> 		public void set_enable_javascript_markup (bool enabled);
> 		public bool enable_javascript { get; set construct; }
> 		public bool enable_javascript_markup { get; set construct; }
> 
> 
> Which means that the symbol isn't currently present in the 
> valac-0.42-vapi
> 
I'm not so familiar with gtk/vala, but quite comfortable with 
backporting.

I can backport vala, but isn't having to use a new vala version to use 
a new webkitgtk a design bug? Can't we include vala bindings of 
webkitgtk in a separate package or part of webkitgtk? Or is webkitgtk 
considered part of vala itself?

> A minimal vala example for testing:
> 
> using WebKit;
> 
> // valac --pkg webkit2gtk-4.0 --thread test.vala
> public static int main (string[] args) {
> 
>   var test = new WebKit.Settings();
>   test.enable_javascript = true;
>   test.enable_javascript_markup = true;
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> 
> Regards
> Mohammed Sadiq
>