My educated guess is that web sockets are logically related to a network
module.


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
<pgqui...@elpauer.org>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> If it's currently a separate module, which compiles by itself and can be
> used by itself, why not adding it as an add-on?
>
> I have started to use Qt on mobile and while 200 more KB is nothing on
> desktop, on mobile, 200 KB here and 200 KB there is a lot on mobile.
>
> I think it's best if a pattern is created: the more functionality that can
> be provided as add-ons, the better (which is in fact what KDE has been
> doing with the split of kdelibs in KF5: define the dependencies of search
> add-on, and you are fine to use only this or that).
>
> Yes, I know, I can use the QT_NO_WEBSOCKETS as Simon suggested but
> wouldn't it be easier if nobody has to care about that? Don't want
> websockets? Don't use the add-on. Or is there anything fundamental that
> will be gained by having QtWebsockets be part of QtNetwork and I have
> missed it?
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Knoll Lars <lars.kn...@digia.com> wrote:
>
>>  Ok, that's around 10% of Qt Network. From my side, I'm ok to simply add
>> it there (and the QML component to qtdeclarative), but I'd like to hear an
>> opinion from Peter and Rich.
>>
>>  Cheers,
>> Lars
>>
>>   On 17/01/14 09:07, "Kurt Pattyn" <pattyn.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  On 17 Jan 2014, at 08:54, Knoll Lars <lars.kn...@digia.com> wrote:
>>
>>  From a feature point of view it would fit best into Qt Network. But
>> it's a sizeable piece of code added to Qt Network. Do you have any numbers
>> on how this changes the size of Qt Network?
>>
>>
>>  The binary release library on OSX is 197 KB (against 1.5MB for the
>> QtNetwork library). There are around 7000 lines of code, 16 header files,
>> 13 source files (these include the QML module), 3 public C++ classes and 1
>> public QML component.
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>
>>  Kurt
>>
>>
>>  Peter and Rich, and comments from your side?
>>
>>  Cheers,
>> Lars
>>
>>   On 16/01/14 19:41, "Steve Gold" <steveg2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>    I recommend that it be included in Qt 5.3 as part of the QtNetwork
>> module.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>  *From:* Kurt Pattyn <pattyn.k...@gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, January 16, 2014 6:51 AM
>> *To:* development@qt-project.org
>> *Cc:* Heikkinen Jani <jani.heikki...@digia.com> ;
>> mailto:thiago.macie...@intel.com <thiago.macie...@intel.com> ;
>> richmoor...@gmail.com ; releas...@qt-project.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Development] Qt 5.3 Feature freeze is coming quite
>> soon...
>>
>>  I would like to propose the QtWebSockets module as a new feature for Qt
>> 5.3 (seehttps://qt.gitorious.org/qtplayground/websockets/source/master)
>>
>> There are a number of requests in Jira:
>> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/issues/?jql=labels%20%3D%20websocketsasking
>>  to include web socket functionality in Qt, so maybe it is a good
>> time to include it now.
>> Besides that, EnginIo could make use of this module as well (currently it
>> uses an own implementation of web sockets).
>>
>> QtWebSockets is fully RFC6455 compliant (see
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455) and is successfully tested against
>> the latest Autobahn TestSuite. Performance is OK as well (test report is
>> not included because of too big).
>>
>> There is a C++ interface as well as a QML module.
>> The C++ API consists of the following classes:
>> QWebSocket
>> QWebSocketServer
>> QWebSocketProtocol
>>
>> The QML API consists of the following component:
>> WebSocket (included in the Qt.WebSockets 1.0 module).
>>
>> I see 2 options: either add the functionality to the QtNetwork module, or
>> add it as a Qt add-on.
>> Maybe adding it to QtNetwork would be a ‘natural’ place: QWebSocket would
>> then live besides QTcpSocket, QWebSocketServer would live besides
>> QTcpServer.
>>
>> The module compiles on all reference platforms, has automated unit tests
>> and manual unit tests (against Autobahn TestSuite), is fully documented,
>> and has a number of examples.
>> The module is included in the CI system of Qt (see
>> http://testresults.qt-project.org/ci/WebSockets_master_Integration/).
>>
>>
>> Please raise your votes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>>
>>
>>  On 16 Jan 2014, at 09:28, Heikkinen Jani <jani.heikki...@digia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>   Hi all,
>>
>>  I want to remind you all that Qt 5.3 feature freeze is coming pretty
>> soon. Feature freeze for Qt 5.3 is 14th Feb 2014 so there is only 4
>> weeks left for implementing new features.
>>
>>  Qt 5.3 schedule can be found here:
>> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5.3-release . There is also link to the Qt
>> 5.3 new features page (http://qt-project.org/wiki/New-Features-in-Qt-5.3).
>> You can start collecting list of new features there…
>>
>>  Note: Let’s keep the feature freeze date! If your feature isn’t ready at
>> that point let’s then move it to Qt 5.4 release instead of taking in it in
>> Qt 5.3 and fighting with it whole release time…
>>  This is also action point for each maintainer: Make sure your component
>> is ready for feature freeze at that date.
>>
>>  Just a reminder:
>>  In the feature freeze all new functionality must
>>
>>  - Compile on all reference platforms (If a module/feature is only for
>> one platform, make sure qmake/make does nothing on the other platforms)
>>  - Have tests. Automated tests should cover as much as possible of the
>> new functionality. If certain areas are not covered by automated tests,
>> there must be clarification how testing will be done for those
>>  - Have documentation. No undocumented public API. Basic docs have to be
>> there, only polishing should still be required after the freeze
>>  - Have examples. Have some examples showing how to use the API. Examples
>> need to be linked to from documentation.
>>
>>  In addition, new modules need to
>>
>>  - Follow the branching scheme. dev/stable/release should be there. A new
>> module can be ok to only have dev, with stable being created at branching
>> time.
>>  - Have a CI system. New modules that are going to be part of Qt releases
>> need to have a CI system set up
>>
>>  Br,
>>  Jani
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