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sho_hn on July 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ubuntu Edge

That's incorrect. QML has used v8 since its initial appearance in Qt4. In fact, it will move away from v8 in Qt 5.2 is the current plan.

zanny on July 23, 2013 [–]

http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/03/05/qt-for-ios-preview/

According to the qt blog, only qtquick2 depends on v8.

sho_hn on July 23, 2013 | [–]

You're right, sorry - replacing JavaScriptCore with v8 indeed only happened for Qt 5. However, v8 is indeed on the way out again, as mentioned: http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/04/15/evolution-of-the-qm...

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