I don't think it's going away, it's just not being maintained.
It's good for what it does, but many of the desired enhancements would result
in the module blowing up in run-time size. The module exists as a good
trade-off. And this I think is why it is deprecated. If it were maintained it
wouldn't be good for the little stuff anymore. I see many requested changes
wanting to DOM-ify it, which would definitely result in bloat (QtDOM is also
deprecated, btw)
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From: Chris Meyer <cmeyer1969...@gmail.com>
To: mhol...@uvic.ca
Cc: "interest@qt-project.org" <interest@qt-project.org>
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Interest] QtSVG deprecated
Recently I've had my apps rejected on the Mac app store for "using a
custom webkit" (QtWebKit). The main use was to render SVG into
QImages.
Going forward, I'm planning on using the QtSvg module. Currently, it
partially supports SVG Tiny; but I'm hoping to develop any missing
features as needed.
I am not in a position to volunteer to be maintainer right now, but
I'm interested in contributing code, doing testing, paying money in
the form of feature bounties, and providing guidance where possible.
Other than the issue of a maintainer, is there any other reason QtSvg
is deprecated? I think it's important to have this functionality
independent of webkit.
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Martin Holmes <mhol...@uvic.ca> wrote:
> I notice here:
>
> <http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/05/12/qt-modules-maturity-level-the-list/>
>
> that QtSvg is now deprecated:
>
> [quote]
> QtSvg
> Overall module state: Deprecated
> New maintainer required
> Reasoning: SVG Full (as opposed to SVG Tiny) functionality available in
> QtWebKit, which should be used instead; we welcome research for a
> replacement for the SVG-generating code.
> [/quote]
>
> I use QtSvg for toolbar icons and similar application-level graphics, to
> provide easy scalability. Will QImage still support SVG images after
> QtSvg is gone? I can't imagine how I could use WebKit for this
> functionality.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> --
> Martin Holmes
> University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
> (mhol...@uvic.ca)
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