I am working on a port of WebKit on Qt to a PowerPC platform. Please
make sure that we don't break the Qt port in this switch. I am
comfortable with autotools, so that is not a big deal for me. I am
concerned, however, that this will cause a fork with the work being
done by the Trolltech folks (since I think that they are primarily
qmake-promoters).
Can we get some feedback from Trolltech on their ability to accept a
switch to autotools for Webkit/Qt so we can switch to one new engine
for all these ports?
Thanks,
Charlie
On Nov 12, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Robert Norris wrote:
If we cannot reach a conclusion, the GTK+ port will most likely go
ahead and switch to autotools.
I'm one person with a highly niche port, but for what its worth I'd
support a move to autotools.
I'm doing a port to AROS, which currently means cross-building
WebKit on
Linux. I opted to use qmake because it was the easiest one to get
set up
in a hurry (I have a little GTK+ experience so I could see how to
cobble
together what I needed from the gtk-port stuff). Getting the
cross-compile happening is a bit of a hack though, and qmake docs are
rather thin.
If qmake is as hard to get hold of as you say (I don't actually
know, my
distribution had it packaged), then I really don't want to put that on
my developers. Besides, eventually we will want to be able to develop
WebKit natively on AROS. Its highly non-POSIX, but we already have
ports
of most of the tools need to do configure stuff. Since QT is not
something we'll ever need, a port isn't likely to appear.
Also cross-building is something I already know how to do with
autotools, which will mean less effort for me getting it set up.
2c.
Cheers,
Rob.
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