[webkit-qt] Proposal: Qt 4 removal from trunk, Qt 5 changes

[Simon Hausmann]

On Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:19:20 AM ext Zoltan Horvath wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> On Wed, 09 May 2012 11:02:15 +0200, Simon Hausmann
> 
> <simon.hausmann at nokia.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After a few emails, let me formulate a concrete proposal:
> >     (1) Andrea Diamantini maintains an up-to-date port of WebKit that
> > 
> > runs
> > with Qt 4, on gitorious.org.
> > 
> >     (2) End of May we remove Qt 4 code paths from WebKit trunk.
> 
> This means that after the (2)nd step ends we will be able to build the
> Qt4+WebKitTrunk only through the gitorious repo. Right?

Yes.

> >     (3) We replace the Qt 4 based bot on build.webkit.org with the Qt 5
> > 
> > one
> > (hosted on Amazon, right?)
> > 
> >     (4) After that we rename the QtWebKit module (and thus library) in
> > 
> > trunk
> > to QtWebKitWidgets. That's no change in the directory structure or file
> > names,
> > just build system changes. This gives us the option of introducing a new
> > QtWidgets-free "QtWebKit" module later during the life-time of Qt 5,
> > essentially realizing a library split where QtWebKitWidgets would link
> > against
> > the new QtWebKit. (Note that this change doesn't affect anyone using the
> > QML2
> > WK2 APIs, as those don't require direct linkage but only use dynamic
> > plugin
> > imports)
> 
> I think, this will be confusing a bit for newbies, so I think it will be
> good to have a wiki page about this information if there will be no
> objections. :)

Good point, the wiki page could start with a big section that if you're 
looking for a Qt 4 build, go here :)


Simon