I'm fine with that. We aim, anyway, for a first release as part of the Qt5 release.
Kenneth On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Simon Hausmann <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > In the past we had a strict rule to not use any private APIs from Qt (4), > which allowed us to make separate releases and support building against > multiple Qt versions at the same time without too much #ifdeffery. > > With the builds against Qt 5 we are dealing with a platform that is vastly > different to what Qt 4 was to WebKit: The features we rely on are young and > subject to change. > > An example of this is our intent of using the QML flickable component for > the > WebView to allow for user interaction that is consistent with the rest of > QML. > The flickable as C++ component (the way we need to use it) however is only > private API in Qt 5. Similarly there may be functionality from the Qt 5 > scene > graph that we need in order to implement proper rendering which may only be > available to us as private APIs. > > (A third example is the use of Qt's copy of V8, which is also technically > private API) > > So unlike with Qt 4, this time in order to achieve some of our goals we may > have to resort to depending on functionality in Qt 5 that is private at the > moment. A result of such a dependency is that we more or less loose the > ability to release independently, at least not without risking major > maintenance overhead when it comes to supporting multiple versions of Qt 5 > at > the same time. > > I suggest that we tie ourselves back to Qt 5 releases and allow the > (controlled) use of private Qt 5 APIs for the time being, in order to > achieve > a perfect QML and scene graph integration. When these features stabilize > and > at some point become available through public APIs, then we should consider > resorting to the old rule. > > > What do you guys think? > > > Simon > _______________________________________________ > webkit-qt mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt > -- Kenneth Rohde Christiansen Senior Engineer Application and Service Frameworks, Nokia Danmark A/S Phone +45 4093 0598 / E-mail kenneth.christiansen at gmail.com http://codeposts.blogspot.com ﹆﹆﹆
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