[Qgis-developer] Wiki page/area for 'Building QGIS from scratch'

[Nyall Dawson]

On 22 March 2017 at 08:26,  <gordon at shieldaig.com> wrote:

> Also, I question further development using WebKit when Qt has moved to
> WebEngine.  Wouldn't adopting WebEngine make sense or at least present why
> it isn't.

As Tom has said, WebEngine isn't a suitable replacement. It's a very,
*very* cut down version of QWebKit which lacks many of the methods we
require.

Until the Qt WebEngine backend is brought up to feature parity with
QWebKit we won't be porting -- it's just not possible to do.

Nyall