[Development] QtWebKit is coming back

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Mon Jun 6 15:13:47 CEST 2016


On Saturday 04 June 2016, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em sábado, 4 de junho de 2016, às 22:20:14 BRT, Konstantin Tokarev escreveu:
> > 2. Is it OK to use "QtWebKit" name for this project, and if yes, how
> > should it be versioned?
> > 
> > Pros:
> > * It is a drop-in replacement for QtWebKit,
> 
> Please don't. You can use the same soname if you are binary compatible, but
> please call the module / project something different to indicate that it's
> different from the previous effort. We cannot give the impression that it
> is a continuation if it doesn't get as wide support as the old one had and
> feature parity.
> 
I would suggest the name WebKitQt, that would fit the names of other upstream 
WebKit ports.

`Allan



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