[Interest] Kicking out QtScript completely

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Christian Dahn
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 3:34 PM
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Interest] Kicking out QtScript completely
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> as stated inside the Qt Blog the devs just decided to drop any QtScript
> support within the next release - without any replacement for users NOT
> USING QML / console apps!
> 
> This will even break any backend app running without gui, because starting
> with Qt 5.6 only scripting by using the QML module is supported and all
> support for QtScript will be completely dropped without any non-GUI
> replacement!!!!

The QtQml library has no GUI dependency. So while I see some porting effort to switch from QtScript to QtQml, it's not true that this prevents command line applications.

And you don't have to use the QML language either ... QtQml has a QJSEngine class.

Kai