Hi Kent. Generally speaking, I think building on top of the C API is a good idea.
Best, Geoff On Jan 20, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Kent Hansen wrote: > Hello WebKit developers, > A while ago, we, the team of Qt developers at Nokia and INdT, presented the > idea of adding a Qt C++ API on top of JavaScriptCore [1]. > The fundamental issue back then was that our implementation was not using the > JavaScriptCore C API, which made it problematic to upstream > (we don't want to limit the freedom to change the JSC implementation by > introducing new dependencies). > > Hence, we've started an implementation that only uses the C API. The latest > version of the initial patch can be found in the Bugzilla task: > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32565 > It provides only the basic functionality of the two main classes, > QScriptEngine and QScriptValue. > > If the community agrees, we would like to begin the process of upstreaming > this and other patches, that incrementally build the C++ API on top of the C > API. > If there are places where we find the C API to be incomplete, we will try to > propose and implement additional API that will hopefully also be of value to > other JavaScriptCore embedders. > > On behalf of the Qt developers, > Kent > > [1] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2009-August/009610.html > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
