[bsimpson]

Apple founded WebKit, so I doubt it will retire its repository.

Are you asking for iOS and macOS Safari to converge, or for Apple to ship straight from the open-source HEAD?

[satya71]

Apple forked WebKit from KDE KHTML.

[bsimpson]

They aren't mutually exclusive.

WebKit was originally based on KHTML, but Apple still founded WebKit and controls its source code. Even if WebKit was just Apple's name for their internal fork of KHTML, I don't see any reason they'd retire it.

Blink was originally spun-out of WebKit too. Similarly, Google controls Blink, and the two have diverged significantly in the intervening years. I suspect patches for any of them won't apply cleanly to the other two.

Regardless of their origins; KHTML, WebKit, and Blink are now independent pieces of software.

It's still unclear to me why anyone should expect Apple to retire WebKit for iOS.

[cies]

> Apple still founded WebKit

> Blink was originally spun-out of WebKit too

Founded, spun out of, forked... What's in the name?

I think one cannot "found" something that's largely based on a fork of something else.

[bsimpson]

There's more to a project than code. A project can absolutely be founded, even if the code is entirely based on another project.