[webkit-qt] APIs going forward

[Simon Hausmann]

On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 10:07:26 AM José Dapena Paz wrote:
> El mar, 05-02-2013 a las 10:03 +0100, Simon Hausmann escribió:
> > > But, the potential issue I see is that the C API does not currently look
> > > as stable as it was supposed to be (because of the recent changes in WK2
> > > governance). I don't know much about the Qt project policies but I guess
> > > that if you provide some API in a stable release you'd have to support
> > > it for some releases. What's the plan for that?
> > 
> > The C API is not subject to the policies of the Qt project (it cannot be).
> > Therefore it would for example not be available when you do QT += webkit
> > in
> > your .pro file. We could choose to make it _accessible_ when using QT +=
> > webkit-private.
> 
> I think it could be possible to keep compatibility at least between
> minor version numbers. "qtwebkit" repository could at least make sure it
> doesn't add API/ABI changes once a stable release is done. This would
> likely be enough warranty for most uses.

If with "minor" you mean between "patch" releases of Qt, then yes. Since we 
usually don't take new snapshots from trunk between patch releases but only 
for minor releases of Qt, the API would only change then.


Simon