[Development] QML Runtime

[Alan Alpert]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at digia.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alan Alpert [mailto:416365416c at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 8:23 AM
>> To: Koehne Kai
>> Cc: Sorvig Morten; development at qt-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Development] QML Runtime
>>
>> For those interested in the matter, the discussion has now moved to
>> codereview.
>>
>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,43539 adds the
>> QQmlApplicationEngine
>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,43540 adds the qml tool using it
>
> Sorry for the late response. Anyway,  I feel somewhat uncomfortable adding yet another tool. I see that the requirements for a runtime vs a previewer / debugging tool are different, but can't we achieve this nevertheless in one binary ? After all you also use the same webbrowser both for development of HTML and browsing.

Technically you could achieve the same thing with one big binary
instead of several smaller ones. I prefer the several smaller ones
approach, because it's simpler and more efficient. You can technically
use the runtime for development in the same way you use a webbrowser,
but for serious QML development I think the answer will always be Qt
Creator.

Note that if the qml binary works sufficiently for basic development
as a more generic runtime, qmlscene and qmlviewer could theoretically
move to Qt Creator (or go away, depending on what Qt Creator wants).
As specialized development tools they should fit into the Qt Creator
story properly. An example would be if we had a separate development
tool for running QML it would be nice to integrate the performance
profiler - like QtCreator has already done.

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Alan Alpert