Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 15:05:53 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > >> Perhaps we could add "minimal" configuration for QtWebKit in Coin, with >> disabled >> QML API, multimedia features, and "extra" stuff like WebGL and geolocation. > > Meanwhile, what would be a proper combination of options

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sábado, 11 de novembro de 2017 06:25:43 PST Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > Or use built-in HTTP server to avoid disk operations One more reason to add an HTTP server framework. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center ___

Re: [Interest] QMake, (static) libraries and LTCG (LTO) on Mac

2017-11-11 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sábado, 11 de novembro de 2017 05:01:53 PST René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Am I doing something wrong or am I simply hitting a limitation? it's a limitation of your environment. Static linking LTCG precompiled code requires a special linker. It's not very well supported everywhere. -- Thiago Maci

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 15:05:53 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >Perhaps we could add "minimal" configuration for QtWebKit in Coin, with >disabled >QML API, multimedia features, and "extra" stuff like WebGL and geolocation. Meanwhile, what would be a proper combination of options to set to achie

Re: [Interest] QMake, (static) libraries and LTCG (LTO) on Mac

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 17:47:14 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >Well, LTO and missing symbols go hand in hand, you should be ready to deal >with such errors. That shouldn't be the case IMHO, and most of the time it isn't at least not when building Qt. >What is your reason to use LTO? Can you

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 15:05:53 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > >> Of course it won't be nearly lean and mean as what you described above, >> however >> it requires virtually no extra maintenance and is unlikely to break on user >> content. >> And it will reduce binary size substantially a

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 15:05:53 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >Of course it won't be nearly lean and mean as what you described above, however >it requires virtually no extra maintenance and is unlikely to break on user >content. >And it will reduce binary size substantially and cut off depende

Re: [Interest] QMake, (static) libraries and LTCG (LTO) on Mac

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 16:12:38 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > >> Note that you should be able to build whole qttools module against any Qt >> install. It should work without any modifications. > > That's what I'd expect but not really what I'm looking for here. I could try > it once to

Re: [Interest] QMake, (static) libraries and LTCG (LTO) on Mac

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 16:12:38 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >Note that you should be able to build whole qttools module against any Qt >install. It should work without any modifications. That's what I'd expect but not really what I'm looking for here. I could try it once to see if I get the

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
>> But improving Assistant need not imply changing QtWidgets. There are two > >> solutions for this: > >> > >> 1) make qttools depend on qtwebengine > >> 2) make Assistant load a plugin that is provided by qtwebengine (and >> qtwebkit) > > 3) Make assistant use the system browser. > > I've

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Kai Koehne
> But improving Assistant need not imply changing QtWidgets. There are two > solutions for this: > > 1) make qttools depend on qtwebengine > 2) make Assistant load a plugin that is provided by qtwebengine (and qtwebkit) 3) Make assistant use the system browser. I've been wondering since a whil

Re: [Interest] QMake, (static) libraries and LTCG (LTO) on Mac

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> Hi, > > I have made some tweaks to the qttools/src/assistant directories so that I > can build the Assistant as a standalone application against any Qt install. Note that you should be able to build whole qttools module against any Qt install. It should work without any modifications. >To

[Interest] QMake, (static) libraries and LTCG (LTO) on Mac

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, I have made some tweaks to the qttools/src/assistant directories so that I can build the Assistant as a standalone application against any Qt install. To do that, I removed the qtNomakeTools(), load(qt_module) and load(qt_app) statements from the relevant .pro files, set up QtHelp to build

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 14:44:42 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > >> Not yet. The closest thing that exists at downloads.qt.io for now is [1], so >> far >> all pre-releases were published at [2] >> >> [1] http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/qtwebkit/5.9/latest/src/submodules/ >> Note that "5.9

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 11:03:46PM +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > >>> > are there plans to retire QtWebKit support, migrate to using QtWebEngine >>> > or >>> > to improve QTextBrowser's HTML support? >>> >>> WebEngine is plainly inacceptable as dependency for QTextBrowser which is >>> part

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 14:44:42 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > Not yet. The closest thing that exists at downloads.qt.io for now is [1], so > far > all pre-releases were published at [2] > > [1] http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/qtwebkit/5.9/latest/src/submodules/ > Note that "5.9.2" means Q

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 11:56:49 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > And sorry for the rapid-firing, but how should one interpret 5.212 vs. 5.9 in > the branch names on code.qt.io/.../qtwebkit ? Is the former less coupled to a > specific Qt version, for instance? Yes, exactly. > > Keep up th

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 13:32:41 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >No > >http://qtwebkit.blogspot.com/2016/08/qtwebkit-im-back.html Now that's interesting! Do the tarballs available via Qt (qtwebkit-opensource-src-*) follow these developments - basically, do they contain snapshots of QtWebKit th

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> On Saturday November 11 2017 02:57:01 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > >>> Back to the topic of this discussion. We've recently switched to Qt WebKit >>> 5.212 > > What Qt version does that correspond to? Any Qt version >= 5.4 >WebKit is just being maintained for compatibility with its Qt depe

Re: [Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

2017-11-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday November 11 2017 02:57:01 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >> Back to the topic of this discussion. We've recently switched to Qt WebKit >> 5.212 What Qt version does that correspond to? WebKit is just being maintained for compatibility with its Qt dependencies, no? >> , and sadly it didn