[webkit-qt] Shipping QtWebKit private headers

[Milian Wolff]

On Thursday 07 March 2013 13:43:30 Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> Hi! :-)
>   I'm developing the QtQuick2 bindings for WebKit1 (see the mail I sent
> just few minutes ago). Indeed, the code and the APIs are not mature (or
> even ready) so I don't think it can be merged into QtWebKit anytime soon.
> 
> However, as the QtQuick2 WebKit1 bindinds approach a state which looks
> usable to me, I'd actually like to be able to use them from other projects.
> 
> So, I'm wondering if it would make sense to move them into a separate
> repository, which could then being built separately from QtWebKit.
> So far, I didn't have to modify any code in WebKit, so my plugin should
> actually work along with an unmodified version of QtWebKit.
> 
> But in order to build it, I needed to make use of some of the private
> headers (such as QWebPageAdaptor).
> Given that the corresponding symbols are defined (at least in Ubuntu's
> libQt5WebKit.so), do you think it makes sense to distribute private
> headers as well?

They are private, thus no. What you could do is something similar to what Qt 
Creator does (or did? haven't checked since some time):

Before you build your WK1 bindings app, define some env var like 
PATH_TO_WK_SOURCE or similar and then use that to find the private headers.

Cheers
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