[webkit-qt] webkit2, v8, diplomacy

[Balazs Kelemen]

     Hi all!

I think it's time to decide how important is the v8 integration for us. 
I'm not saying it's hyper-super important, I'm just curious about your 
opinion. In fact we have a qt5 release blocker bug for that: 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76778 (although at the time when 
it has been filed we did not expect that much community resistance) and 
it's also quite clear that this could save a lot of memory (1 js engine 
instead of 2). It's evident that we don't want to go against the 
community, but still I think they should be more open to this. It's 
really just some lines of boilerplate glue code to webkit2, and we 
choose a solution that provides source compatibility with 
WebKitTestRunner. Btw, there are the bugs:
     - https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76778 (meta)
     - https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87872 
<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87872>shim for wtr
     - https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84457 wk2+v8

If the case is that we want to go for this, I would definitely need your 
help to get community acceptance since I'm not a reviewer and honestly I 
am not very good in diplomacy :)

Anyway, I would not like to make the false illusion that pushing these 
patches will solve every problem and just save memory. In fact, in order 
to get the desired benefit we have to solve other issues:
     - using the same copy of v8 (fork) in declarative and webkit. this 
is tricky because webkit needs the most up-to-date v8 version
     - using v8 in qtscript, or detaching qtscrpit from qtdeclarative (I 
heard qtscript is a dependency)


Cheers,
-kbalazs

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