On Tuesday 13 September 2011 10:42:53 Gábor Lehel wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:51 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 12/09/2011, at 11:04 PM, ext Sylvain Pointeau wrote: > > > > QtScript should be using V8 and provide all the facilities of binding > > QtObjects... > > (it is using JavascriptCore if I remember well correct?) > > > > While this would be true in an ideal world, after much prototyping it > > was > > decided that porting the entire QtScript API to V8 and preserving its > > exact semantics was simply not possible. As a compromise, we have left > > the QtScript module untouched to preserve 100% compatibility for > > existing applications, and introduced a parallel API against V8 (the > > QJS* classes) that is similar enough that we expect most applications - > > and almost all new applications - to be able to move to it instead. > > Keeping 100% compatibility is a requirement even with the break to Qt5?
Yes, keeping as much source compatibility as possible, in order to make possible to upgrade projects with millions of lines of code. _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
