[webkit-qt] QtWebKit reviving progress

[Vitaly Slobodin]

> Thta's sad to see work being duplicated. You should have been notified others on the list. Nevertheless, I hope we will be able to join our work.
Well, I did it really quickly, so I know that there're some problems. I just wanted to check if it's possible.

> Like I wrote before, upstream is converging around use of CMake as *the* build system of WebKit, so it's not reasonable to resist. So I decided to go straight to CMake, despite some bias that I have against it.
Using CMake makes the whole job much easier. We don't need to convert CMake macros for auto-generated files. In other words, with CMake we don't need to do redundant work.

> I think it's premature to thank me for anything yet, I've done only a tiny bit of work for this moment.
I'll definitely help you as much as I can!

With regards,
Vitaly.

> On 11 Jan 2016, at 14:48, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:
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> 11.01.2016, 14:33, "Vitaly Slobodin" <vitaliy.slobodin at gmail.com>:
>> Hello,
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>> First of all, I want to say thank you for reviving QtWebkit. We (the PhantomJS team) are really depend on it.
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> Thanks! Great to know there are more people interested in QtWebKit.
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>> We tried to use QtWebEngine but, unfortunately, it doesn't satisfy our requirements.
>> So, I'm doing exact the same job as you do.
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> Thta's sad to see work being duplicated. You should have been notified others on the list. Nevertheless, I hope we will be able to join our work.
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>> The main difference that I use the old QMake build system. So far, I have a partially working build. It compiles successfully, but it doesn't work properly.
>> I really looking look forward to help you as much as I can do (for example, I can help you with Windows port).
>> Upstream version of Webkit has changed too much, so the old QMake-based build system is not stable. I think CMake is much better option.
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> Like I wrote before, upstream is converging around use of CMake as *the* build system of WebKit, so it's not reasonable to resist. So I decided to go straight to CMake, despite some bias that I have against it.
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> I've found that WebKit team has made a great job at making their CMake build system suitable for satisfying requirements of different port. Let's use it.
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>> Thanks!
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> I think it's premature to thank me for anything yet, I've done only a tiny bit of work for this moment.
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> BTW, I and Julien have contributed a number of patches to WebKit trunk with a goal to fix MIPS backend. Any interested parties are welcome to join us!
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>> With regards,
>> Vitaly.
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> Regards,
> Konstantin

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