QtScript considered dangerous

[Stephen Kelly]

Dominik Haumann wrote:

> On Friday, 25. May 2012 21:42:50 Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> Christoph Cullmann wrote:
>> > Still, a fix for QtScript would be the nicest solution or a port to the
>> > "new" engine provided in Qt5, as I understood, there QtScript is anyway
>> > "deprecated" in favour of the V8 based new variant?
>> 
>> Nope. QtScript might be 'done' - meaning no one is working on it and
>> there's no replacement. The v8 stuff is not public API like QtScript is,
>> so it is not a replacement.
>> 
>> > But does the new engine provide the same nice features to easily wrap
>> > your objects and expose a custom API?
>> 
>> Yes. That's how QtDeclarative works. As it's internal, non-public API,
>> that doesn't really matter much.
>> 
>> Maybe a public API will be created to replace QtScript eventually
>> though...
> 
> According to the docs
> http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/5.0/qjsengine.html QJSEngine and
> QJSValue are already public API. Maybe I'm mistaken?
> 

That's interesting. Maybe I am mistaken. It doesn't look like it's intended 
to be a QtScript replacement as it is, but I'll ask on the ml.

Thanks,

Steve.