On Jan 19, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Patrick Forget wrote:
Hello,
I have mentioned before that I have also started a port of kwq to
the Windows platform. Somehow, I thought I could continue working
on it but didn't find the time. I have been contacted twice by
people wanting to finish the port to Windows.
What is really missing is a public cvs/svn to help working on a
common code. As far as I understand, there is several version (and
several level of porting) of the code lying around in private. I
didn't want to continue until I am sure no one else try to do same
thing. A public cvs would really help to focus and share the
work. I would have no trouble working on the part that I do find
fun (QPainter being one of it).
Can it be possible from Apple to set a win32 branch in there SVN?
Or maybe we can continue on the current sourceforge project (by
contacting the previous maintainer)? I am ready to put my file
public and take time to document my changes (and maybe rediscover
what I have done). Other developers might be more advanced in
there work, it may be a good opportunity to show up.
Win32 porting work should go on HEAD, not on a branch. Contributions
to it would be welcome, but you should probably chat with some of the
Apple folks working on portability. You can find myself, Dave Hyatt
and Darin on IRC (#webkit) pretty often.
I will also note that Qt 4.0 (now 4.1) is now available on Windows
with a GPL license. If the KWQ api behave exactly the same as Qt,
this can be a easy way to port WebCore (it become GPL in this
case). The main avantage can be to check if the higher level of
WebCore work on Windows (and it may help the KDE Project to get
back the changes done by Apple).
KWQ no longer has the same API as Qt, and we are working towards
making the porting layer more platform-agnostic instead of being a
hacked up clone of Qt. I think this will actually make it easier to
make the webcore engine run on the real Qt, should anyone be
motivated to try that.
Regards,
Maciej
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