Without considerable more demand, I don't think we want this. -Sam
On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Balazs Kelemen <kbal...@webkit.org> wrote: > On 04/23/2012 11:53 PM, Sam Weinig wrote: >> Hi Balazs, >> >> This is something we don't want at this time. Dealing with V8 in WebCore is >> pretty big maintenance burden and one I would rather not have in WebKit2 >> unless there is considerable demand for it. > > Well, it's important for Qt. > >> >> In your patch (attached to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84457), >> there are many intrusive changes to core WebKit2 code, making it harder to >> comprehend and refactor. >> Also, since a much bigger proportion of developers who develop WebKit2 don't >> ever compile V8, it seems more likely that the code will stop working. > > The WIP patch I uploaded is just a very first step to make it possible to > build with v8 > without breaking the most basic features. I have just overhacked every > problematic part > - instead of finding a proper solution to them - to see how many dependencies > there are > on JSC as quickly as possible. It should be way better before uploaded for > review. > > >> >> -Sam >> >> On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:28 AM, Balazs Kelemen<kbal...@webkit.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I would like to inform you about the topic I am working on, since it is >>> something >>> that can affect WebKit2 architecturally. I would like to make WebKit2 work >>> with v8. >>> The motivation behind this is that the long term goal of the Qt port is to >>> switch to v8. >>> Qt already use v8 in it's Qml module, and it's better to have only one VM >>> in the framework >>> (less code size, less memory usage, easier maintenance). >>> >>> My goal is to achieve this with the minimal amount of changes made in >>> WebKit2. My plan >>> for WebKitTestRunner is to wrap v8 behind the JavaScriptCore API (or, in >>> another point of >>> view, implement the JSC API upon the v8 API). For the core of WebKit2 we >>> will have to use >>> some bindings for things like plugins or the injected bundle but it should >>> be not too much of >>> a maintenance burden. >>> >>> Inform me if you have any concerns or suggestion. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Balazs Kelemen >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
