Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-13 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Kai Koehne wrote: >> 1) make qttools depend on qtwebengine --- I'm clearly not alone in thinking that QWE is serious overkill for documentation browsing. I'd rather explore solutions that involve using a HTML-rendering framework that's even leaner than QtWebkit in a "minimal" configuration. Kh

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 15:05:53 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > >> Perhaps we could add "minimal" configuration for QtWebKit in Coin, with >> disabled >> QML API, multimedia features, and "extra" stuff like WebGL and geolocation. > > Meanwhile, what would be a proper combination of options

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sábado, 11 de novembro de 2017 06:25:43 PST Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > Or use built-in HTTP server to avoid disk operations One more reason to add an HTTP server framework. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center ___

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 15:05:53 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >Perhaps we could add "minimal" configuration for QtWebKit in Coin, with >disabled >QML API, multimedia features, and "extra" stuff like WebGL and geolocation. Meanwhile, what would be a proper combination of options to set to achie

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 15:05:53 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > >> Of course it won't be nearly lean and mean as what you described above, >> however >> it requires virtually no extra maintenance and is unlikely to break on user >> content. >> And it will reduce binary size substantially a

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 15:05:53 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >Of course it won't be nearly lean and mean as what you described above, however >it requires virtually no extra maintenance and is unlikely to break on user >content. >And it will reduce binary size substantially and cut off depende

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> out of the .qch file. But we > might as well just extract the .html as files, and work from there... Or use built-in HTTP server to avoid disk operations > > Kai > > From: Interest on behalf > of Thiago Macieira > > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 10:10:2

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Kai Koehne
and work from there... Kai From: Interest on behalf of Thiago Macieira Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 10:10:26 PM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant? On Friday, 10 November 2017 11:41

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 14:44:42 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > >> Not yet. The closest thing that exists at downloads.qt.io for now is [1], so >> far >> all pre-releases were published at [2] >> >> [1] http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/qtwebkit/5.9/latest/src/submodules/ >> Note that "5.9

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 11:03:46PM +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > >>> > are there plans to retire QtWebKit support, migrate to using QtWebEngine >>> > or >>> > to improve QTextBrowser's HTML support? >>> >>> WebEngine is plainly inacceptable as dependency for QTextBrowser which is >>> part

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 14:44:42 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > Not yet. The closest thing that exists at downloads.qt.io for now is [1], so > far > all pre-releases were published at [2] > > [1] http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/qtwebkit/5.9/latest/src/submodules/ > Note that "5.9.2" means Q

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 11:56:49 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > And sorry for the rapid-firing, but how should one interpret 5.212 vs. 5.9 in > the branch names on code.qt.io/.../qtwebkit ? Is the former less coupled to a > specific Qt version, for instance? Yes, exactly. > > Keep up th

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 13:32:41 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >No > >http://qtwebkit.blogspot.com/2016/08/qtwebkit-im-back.html Now that's interesting! Do the tarballs available via Qt (qtwebkit-opensource-src-*) follow these developments - basically, do they contain snapshots of QtWebKit th

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 02:57:01 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > >>> Back to the topic of this discussion. We've recently switched to Qt WebKit >>> 5.212 > > What Qt version does that correspond to? Any Qt version >= 5.4 >WebKit is just being maintained for compatibility with its Qt depe

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 02:57:01 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >> Back to the topic of this discussion. We've recently switched to Qt WebKit >> 5.212 What Qt version does that correspond to? WebKit is just being maintained for compatibility with its Qt dependencies, no? >> , and sadly it didn

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-10 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
11.11.2017, 02:49, "Oleg Shparber" : > Hi, > > On 10 November 2017 at 15:06, René J.V. Bertin wrote: >> Last but not least: Zeal is indeed very closely related to Dash. So close in >> fact that it cannot advocate Mac compatibility for licensing/legal reasons, >> and that it would probably be d

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-10 Thread Oleg Shparber
Hi, On 10 November 2017 at 15:06, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Last but not least: Zeal is indeed very closely related to Dash. So close > in fact that it cannot advocate Mac compatibility for licensing/legal > reasons, and that it would probably be delicate even to provide it via > MacPorts. > Ze

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-10 Thread André Pönitz
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 11:03:46PM +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > > are there plans to retire QtWebKit support, migrate to using QtWebEngine > > > or > > > to improve QTextBrowser's HTML support? > > > > WebEngine is plainly inacceptable as dependency for QTextBrowser which is > > part > > o

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-10 Thread André Pönitz
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 01:10:26PM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Friday, 10 November 2017 11:41:56 PST André Pönitz wrote: > > > are there plans to retire QtWebKit support, migrate to using QtWebEngine > > > or to improve QTextBrowser's HTML support? > > > > WebEngine is plainly inacceptable

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-10 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday November 10 2017 20:41:56 André Pönitz wrote: > > are there plans to retire QtWebKit support, migrate to using QtWebEngine or > > to improve > > QTextBrowser's HTML support? > > WebEngine is plainly inacceptable as dependency for QTextBrowser which > is part of the QtWidgets module. H

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday, 10 November 2017 11:41:56 PST André Pönitz wrote: > > are there plans to retire QtWebKit support, migrate to using QtWebEngine > > or to improve QTextBrowser's HTML support? > > WebEngine is plainly inacceptable as dependency for QTextBrowser which > is part of the QtWidgets module. Bu

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-10 Thread André Pönitz
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 04:02:02PM +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Friday November 10 2017 13:19:39 Samuel Stirtzel wrote: > > >(switched mailing list to interest since this post is not about qt > >development per se) > > Where Qt development does come in is with this: > > are there plans t

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-10 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday November 10 2017 13:19:39 Samuel Stirtzel wrote: >(switched mailing list to interest since this post is not about qt >development per se) Where Qt development does come in is with this: are there plans to retire QtWebKit support, migrate to using QtWebEngine or to improve QTextBrowser

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-10 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday November 10 2017 13:19:39 Samuel Stirtzel wrote: Hi, > are you aware of the Qt based Zeal [1] documentation browser project? > The project shares code with Dash [2] (basically the same thing for MacOS). > > IMHO it is a good alternative to Qt Assistant and IIRC there also was > a plugi

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-10 Thread Samuel Stirtzel via Interest
2017-11-10 12:40 GMT+01:00 René J.V. Bertin : > Hi, > > I've been tinkering a bit with building the Assistant from the 5.9 branch > head against my installed Qt 5.8.0, using a static lib build of the QtHelp > library. That requires only a few trivial patches and the first impression is > that th