[Development] bundle support in QML

[Simon Hausmann]

Hi,

I'd like to revive an old thread about Qml and the "bundle" feature we have in 
the code base. The last time this was discussed (August last year, 
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-August/012261.html ) I 
think no conclusion was reached regarding whether this feature should be kept 
around or not.

>From what I remember from discussions around the feature and from the code 
that I've seen meanwhile, the intentions of the bundle system were good. Save 
parsing time, make room for architecture specific output, all encapsulated in 
one file.

However I'm at the point where I don't think the bundle feature adds any value 
anymore, but it does add cost to the code base in terms of maintenance. You 
can argue about the actual price, but it is greater than zero :)

Meanwhile nobody has worked on it, the tooling supporting beyond the command 
line tool is still non-existent and the feature remains undocumented. 
Therefore I propose to remove the command line tool, the bundle loading 
support in the engine as well as the auto-tests from the dev branch.

What do we have to loose? If somebody really wants to pick it up again, then 
they can revive it from the git history and play with it.

Any opinions? :)


Simon