Policy regarding QtWebKit and QtScript

Adriaan de Groot groot at kde.org
Wed Jan 6 18:52:48 GMT 2016


Kevin, first off thank you for responding so carefully to Vadim and to me. It 
does make a difference to porting efforts.

On Wednesday 06 January 2016 18:11:25 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> unbundling doesn't seem to be the main focus. And the reason there are so
> many patches is because they produced a different patch for EVERY SINGLE
> source file they modified! (That, and the fact that they're only named after
> the source files and not after the modifications actually done, also makes
> it really hard to decide at a glance what those patches really do. IMHO,
> this is an example of how NOT to manage downstream patches.)

Yeah. I find that a terrible confusing policy in FreeBSD ports too. But that's 
not my department, I'm afraid.

[ade]




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