On Wednesday, February 08, 2012 08:50:04 AM ext Alexis Menard wrote: > 2012/2/8 Konstantin Tokarev <[email protected]>: > > 08.02.2012, 15:32, "Alexis Menard" <[email protected]>: > >> 2012/2/8 Konstantin Tokarev <[email protected]>: > >>> 08.02.2012, 06:30, "Alexis Menard" <[email protected]>: > >>>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Lindsay Mathieson > >>>> > >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:34:44 PM you wrote: > >>>>>> Have been away for a few months dealing with issues - floods etc :( > >>>>>> so a > >>>>>> little out of touch, please excuse my massive ignorance as to > >>>>>> the release process. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Back in August last year I and others commit a inline spellchecking > >>>>>> mod to webkit: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> https://gitorious.org/+qtwebkit-developers/webkit/qtwebkit/blobs/qt > >>>>>> webkit-2. 2/Source/WebKit/qt/Api/qwebkitplatformplugin.h > >>>> > >>>> It was too late to be able to make it for Qt 4.8 therefore QtWebKit > >>>> 2.2. This is why nothing has change in Qt or KDE. I don't think we'll > >>>> have a new minor release of Qt 4 with QtWebKit so I don't think there > >>>> is a way for your patch to make its way to KDE for example. Unless > >>>> someone here step up to release a QtWebKit 2.3 with all the QA work it > >>>> requires then it could find its way as a separate release and add-on > >>>> of Qt 4.8. > >>> > >>> Wait... There won't be QtWebKit releases for Qt 4.x anymore? What a > >>> pity! > >> > >> Well unless someone would like to jump and doing it, I don't see how > >> it would happen. QtWebKit team is very limited resources wise so... > >> > >> I know what it is to make a QWebKit release as INdT did 2.2, it takes > >> a while, time and people. We don't have that luxury yet as we have to > >> make Qt5 WebKit to work. > > > > AFAIK trunk still works with Qt 4.8. Are you planning to drop it before > > making new release with Qt 5 support? > > It works but not much is done on it (read QA testing...). We don't > have any plan to drop Qt 4.8 support in trunk anytime soon but yes > maybe at some point later we'll do it.
I agree with Alexis here. I've had a chat with some Digia folks a few weeks ago and they have a naturally a continued interested in the Qt 4.8 series from a commercial perspective. Let's give those folks time to adjust to the WebKit climate, there's hope that they may be able to contribute to the 4.8 code line. Simon _______________________________________________ webkit-qt mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt
