On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <[email protected]>wrote:
> > After some thought, I think we should maintain at least one stable desktop > version of QtWebKit in trunk, and I believe Lars already officially stated > that Qt 5.0 will not be fully ready for the desktop, so I suggest we > maintain > QtWebkit for Qt 4.8 until Qt 5.x is deemed ready for the desktop. > > Since we only support Qt 4.8 for WebKit1 where not that much development is > happening, how much would we gain in dropping that support anyway? > > One thing I can think of that we'd gain from dropping support of Qt4 in trunk: we wouldn't have to keep the same layout tests results for Qt5/WK1 and Qt4, which means the ability to cleanup the hacks in the testfonts repo which are becoming more and more unmaintainable. Other than that, i don't think we *need* to remove all the Qt4 specific bits and pieces right away. We still have some 4.6 specific ifdefs in there after all (or at least we did not that long ago) Cheers, -- Pierre
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