On Jan 20, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Kent Hansen wrote: > Hello WebKit developers, > A while ago, we, the team of Qt developers at Nokia and INdT, presented the > idea of adding a Qt C++ API on top of JavaScriptCore [1]. > The fundamental issue back then was that our implementation was not using the > JavaScriptCore C API, which made it problematic to upstream > (we don't want to limit the freedom to change the JSC implementation by > introducing new dependencies). > > Hence, we've started an implementation that only uses the C API. The latest > version of the initial patch can be found in the Bugzilla task: > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32565 > It provides only the basic functionality of the two main classes, > QScriptEngine and QScriptValue. > > If the community agrees, we would like to begin the process of upstreaming > this and other patches, that incrementally build the C++ API on top of the C > API. > If there are places where we find the C API to be incomplete, we will try to > propose and implement additional API that will hopefully also be of value to > other JavaScriptCore embedders.
This sounds like a good approach. And keeping it in the WebKit repository seems totall acceptable to me. Also please let us know if you find any limitations in the C API that make it hard or impossible to do what you want with this API - we would like to fix any such issues. Cheers, Maciej _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
