[WebKit-devel] KDE WebKit status update [Remix]

Dawit A. adawit at kde.org
Mon Oct 19 22:59:41 CEST 2009


On Monday 19 October 2009 15:48:26 Urs Wolfer wrote:
> On Sunday 18 October 2009 23:11:24 Dawit A. wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 October 2009 12:57:28 Urs Wolfer wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > When do you think should we move kdewebkit into kdereview? IMHO it can
> > > be done soon.
> >
> > Well I have no object to that now that I went ahead and made the
> > cookiejar implementation internal until it can be moved to the proper
> > location. The only question is by "move" do you mean "copy" to kdereview
> > until its approval into kdelibs ? Otherwise, that would mean one has to
> > compile stuff from both kdereview and playground to get webkitpart to
> > work, no ? In other words how should the transition going to be handled ?
> 
> My plan looks like this (chronically):
> * Put your cookiejar / accessmanger changes into kdelibs.
> * Copy webkitkde/kdewebkit into kdereview (I will probably do that next
> weekend if your patch is in kdelibs at this time). Let the "old" version in
> webkitkde, so it still builds without kdereview code; use the kdereview
>  (later kdelibs) version of kdewebkit if it can be found on the system.
>  "Port" it in kderview to match into kdelibs; i.e. all CMake script changes
>  I have already prepared and remove cookiejar stuff.
> * Let do others on kde-core-devel review the code; will take about two
>  weeks IIRC.
> * Move it afterward into kdelibs if there are no objections.
> * When KDE 4.4 is out, remove the outdated copy of webkitkde/kdewebkit;
> webkitkde will depend on kdelibs 4.4 at that point.
> 
> I hope I have not forgot anything important. Objections?

Nope... Sounds good to me...


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