[Development] QtWebKit is coming back

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Tue Jun 7 13:15:44 CEST 2016



07.06.2016, 09:47, "Florian Bruhin" <me at the-compiler.org>:
> * Lars Knoll <Lars.Knoll at qt.io> [2016-06-07 06:38:35 +0000]:
>>  Ok, in this case a separate repo is maybe a better strategy.
>>  WebKitQt (as Allan proposed) might be a good name in this case :)
>
> I don't want to start any bike-shedding here, but if there's a
> QtWebKit and a WebKitQt and those are *basically* different versions
> of the same thing, that sounds like a source for a lot of confusion...

I admit that I was thinking about WebKitQt name before Allan proposed it,
for the same reason + because project becomes somewhat more "WebKitish"
and less "Qtish" over the time.

However I have the same concern as Florian, i.e. difference is too subtle
to eleminate confusion, and too significant for seamless update.

BTW, I think it's not strictly necessary to equate public name of the project
and basename of the final component of repo url. For instance, new repo could be
at qt/webkit.git. Optionally with snapshots and tags pushed into qt/qtwebkit.git
for convenience of packagers.


>
> FWIW the unofficial name it just happened to get in various related
> IRC channels is "QtWebKit-NG" ;)
>
> Florian
>
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