[webkit-qt] Conclusion (was RE: Proposal: Qt 4 removal from trunk, Qt 5 changes)

[Simon Hausmann]

On Wednesday, June 06, 2012 09:37:14 AM ext Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 June 2012, simon.hausmann at nokia.com wrote:
> > Hm, okay, maybe we can improve the timing :)
> > 
> > What would be the advantage of waiting until Qt 5.0 is released? What
> > would
> > be different at that point?
> 
> By branching of the same version as Qt 5.0 it will hopefully benifit from
> the stabilization up to Qt 5.0, plus it means we can hopefully keep the
> QtWebKit for Qt 4.x version close to the branch used for Qt 5.0, which
> means we can possible merge similar patches, etc.
> 
> From an communication POV it is also simpler to explain that this fork will
> provide the features available in QtWebKit for Qt 5.0 to Qt 4.x (except
> WebKit2 of course).

I think that is a really good point, a new Qt 4 based QtWebKit 2.3 release 
should have the same (WebCore) feature set as WebKit in Qt 5. I really like 
that.

But that doesn't require us to branch at the same time, does it?

If we removed Qt 4 support from trunk today and create a out-of-trunk Qt 4 
branch, we'd still merge WebKit trunk (and thus WebCore features) up until the 
point where we would also branch off for Qt 5 and stop merging from trunk.


Simon