[QGIS-Developer] Switching to KDE fork of Qt for Windows builds?

[Denis Rouzaud]

Hi all,

This might be of interest for this topic, it seems Qt 5.15.3 was released
as open source.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-5.15.3-Open-Source
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2022-March/042262.html

Denis


Le ven. 4 mars 2022 à 12:21, Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :

> Hi Nyall,
>
> On Fri, 04. Mar 2022 at 11:36:07 +1000, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer
> wrote:
> > I'm wondering if it's possible to switch over the Windows (osgeo4w)
> > builds of Qt from the upstream 5.15.2 package over to the (maintained)
> > KDE 5.15 backports fork. We're missing a bunch of important fixes on
> > Windows (especially the PDF output related fixes) which are available
> > in KDE's fork.
> >
> > Is this a major task to do?
>
> Well, depends on your point of view.  It's a long task at least - building
> will
> take ages.  But if it just contains patches, then there's probably much
> more
> patience required than actual work.  And I guess it wouldn't require
> rebuilds
> of reverse dependencies (like qtwebkit to name the heaviest one).
>
>
> Jürgen
>
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