Finishing the Qt5 port

[Sérgio Martins]

Hi,


It's my pleasure to announce that KDAB[1] is going to help get Vitaliy's port completed so we all can enjoy a new webkit version.


Here are a few things we want to achieve:

- Maintain the delta between upstream qtbase/qtwebkit as small as possible, upstream all patches we can.
- Use git submodules with our qtbase/qtwebkit clones. This will greatly reduce the burden of updating our copies, by rebasing.
- Use QtWebKit instead of WebKit. Upstream WebKit no longer supports Qt API and QtWebKit will still receives bug fixes by Digia.
- Should be able to build statically (Linux/OSX/Windows)

Comments welcome.
Feel free to contact me by e-mail or on freenode (sergio).


Regards,

[1] - http://www.kdab.com/

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[Vitaliy Slobodin]

Hi,

That's absolutely fantastic news! Support all 3 platforms is really painful, especially when I don't have a native OS X.

Windows build was ready a long time ago. Right now, I'm stuck with version for OS X.

I already thought about extracting Webkit into a submodule to reduce the whole repository size, landing upstream patches, etc.

But, I'm keeping all things together just to make the porting process easier.

What we've got so far:

- Build PhantomJS statically on Windows - yes!

- On Linux - yes!

- On OS X - no. Stuck on the post-build process of QtWebkit. I'll post more information a bit later.

Regards,

Vitaliy.