On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Simon Hausmann <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thursday, May 10, 2012 09:55:47 AM ext Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 May 2012, Simon Hausmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > After a few emails, let me formulate a concrete proposal: > > > (1) Andrea Diamantini maintains an up-to-date port of WebKit that > runs > > > > > > with Qt 4, on gitorious.org. > > > > > > (2) End of May we remove Qt 4 code paths from WebKit trunk. > > > > > > (3) We replace the Qt 4 based bot on build.webkit.org with the Qt > 5 > > > one > > > > > > (hosted on Amazon, right?) > > > > After some thought, I think we should maintain atleast 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? > > It's a fair question, and I admit I didn't outline that in the proposal. > The > maintenance of the Qt 4 port currently costs us > > (1) Separate *Qt4.cpp files in a few places (including the much loved > JSC<>QT bindings ;) > > (2) A fair chunk of #ifdefs > > (3) A bot to maintain (This is a very high cost, especially for Ossy). > > > I'm proposing the remove the Qt 4 port from trunk because nobody appears > to be > interested in taking over that maintenance in trunk. Andrea on the other > hand > volunteered to do an out-of-trunk maintenance, which is a great > opportunity I > thought. What exactly is involved in maintaining it in the trunk itself ? Would such maintenance require more than one person ? I just do not see how the out-of-trunk maintenance is supposed to work. For example, if a 2.3 version of QtWebKit was supposed to be released from such branch, how would that be treated ? Would it be considered an official update of QtWebKit for Qt4 ?
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