Bug 300163

Summary: [GTK] Remove support for building against libsoup2
Product: WebKit Reporter: Adrian Perez <aperez>
Component: WebKitGTKAssignee: Adrian Perez <aperez>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: bugs-noreply
Priority: P2    
Version: WebKit Nightly Build   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
See Also: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300382

Adrian Perez
Reported 2025-10-04 00:48:32 PDT
There is a experiment in https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/51748 to remove the 4.x API levels from the GTK port, but as we cannot yet remove the ENABLE(2022_GLIB_API) guards, most of the code simplification comes from removing the USE(SOUP2) ones. For now we need to keep the pre-2022 API for both the WPE and GTK port when built with GTK3, but packages for the webkit2gtk-4.0 API version are practically gone from Linux distributions, and it seems reasonable to remove 4.0 and the remaining libsoup2 code during this development cycle.
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Adrian Perez
Comment 1 2025-10-04 15:00:43 PDT
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Comment 2 2025-10-07 07:19:42 PDT
Committed 301131@main (6153cafaf3bd): <https://commits.webkit.org/301131@main> Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #51819 and removing active labels.
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