[Development] Clarification needed for Qt Script's future over QJSEngine/Value

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 26 November 2014 19:59:55 N. N. wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 26 November 2014, 14:15, Hausmann Simon 
<Simon.Hausmann at theqtcompany.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > You are right, we need to add a few more features to QJSEngine.
> > 
> > I'm not so much in favor of the default prototype for meta type api
> > anymore, as it promotes the creation of slow conversion code I think. If
> > you peek at my gerrit dashboard then you can see that I'm about 80% done
> > with a series for gadget support that will allow you to expose your own
> > value types without a conversion needed.
> 
> I am wondering if just going directly to V8 instead of using Qt as the
> middle man would be the best course of action, that way you get all the
> speed benefits that V8 offers, and no need to mess with any conversion
> code, with the only disadvantage, that I can think of, is adding another
> dependency. Or, will this introduce linker errors with Qt's version of V8,
> if all we need is QtCore.lib & QtGui.lib?

Since Qt doesn't use V8 anymore, there should not be any clashes at all.

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