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

Alexis Menard alexis.menard at openbossa.org
Mon May 14 10:16:59 PDT 2012


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Andrea Diamantini <adjam7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 10 May 2012 09:25:22 Alexis Menard wrote:
>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com>
> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> > After some thought, I think we should maintain atleast one stable desktop
>> > version of QtWebKit in trunk, and I believe Lars already officially stated
>> > that Qt 5.0 will not be fully ready for the desktop, so I suggest we
>> > maintain QtWebkit for Qt 4.8 until Qt 5.x is deemed ready for the
>> > desktop.
>>
>> Well he said Qt 5 + QML.
>>
>> QWidget is still there rocking as he was. So Qt5 + Desktop is working
>> fine if you rely on QWidget which is what WK1 is relying on.
>
> Stupid question about Qt5 + WK1.
> Will it be using JSC as javascript engine or it will move to v8 as well?

Today it is JSC and tbh even if V8 support would be added then JSC
would be supported.

>
>> > Since we only support Qt 4.8 for WebKit1 where not that much development
>> > is
>> > happening, how much would we gain in dropping that support anyway?
>>
>> Stuff like that could be avoided :
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=140979&action=review
>>
>> > `Allan
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