Some more thoughts on khtml
fenix at club-internet.fr
fenix at club-internet.fr
Mon Jan 20 15:05:42 CST 2003
Hi
>What's the use of win32 port of the GPL version of QT for wine? We don't want
>wine to depend on Qt, if we wanted this we could just use the normal Unix
>version of Qt.
i totaly agree with you :)
I don't see any need for porting Qt to windows
>The khtml-win32 project is much more usefull for wine. That project is
>actually porting the qt wrapper Apple made for use in Safari to Windows. When
>that port is done, it could be used in Wine.
helping that port can speed up wine/khtml integration :)
>Roderick
>
>On Monday 20 January 2003 14:38, Adam Treat wrote:
>> --- fenix at club-internet.fr wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > >Just two things for those thinking about khtml:
>> > >
>> > >1) The kdebindings package contains C-language bindings for khtml
>> > > (kde_HTML*), so C++ wouldn't be a requirement for calling khtml
>> > > (this does not affect the qt-replacement api of course).
>> >
>> > yes, as qtc in kdebindings is for qt :)
>> >
>> > >2) There is a project to port KWC to win32: KHTML Win32 Native, see
>> > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/khtml-win32/ Maybe it is possible to
>> > > use that.
>> >
>> > yes, but it's a really slow project (no cvs access, and only one guy).
>> > Maybe we have to help this project
>>
>> Why not just port the GPL version of Qt to Windows? The kde-cygwin project
>> is doing that right now and it isn't terribly hard (if you know the Windows
>> API ;). I think if some wine developers got involved it could be
>> accomplished very quickly as Qt is almost completely platform agnostic ...
>> it only would require a port of 10 files or so...
>>
>> See:
>> 1. http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104072112729044&w=2
>> 2. http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cygwin&m=104273412430620&w=2
>> 3. http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cygwin&m=104273881706572&w=2
>>
>> BTW, I have setup a project and already started porting the build stuff to
>> use mingw32. Currently, am stuck in the qfile_win.cpp and qdir_win.cpp
>> (copies of the qfile_unix.cpp and qdir_unix.cpp) with the general functions
>> that abstract file creation/deletion for windows ... but then I don't know
>> any Windows API ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> > > ciao
>> > > Jörg
>> >
>> > Raphael
>> >
>> > >--
>> > >Joerg Mayer <jmayer at loplof.de>
>> > >I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
>> > >what proactive means.
>>
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