[Qgis-psc] Fwd: No QGIS in stretch due to Qt4 WebKit removal

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Richard,

QWebView also used by Processing for displaying help and maybe also
by QGIS help system too.

2016-01-11 15:27 GMT+02:00 Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>:
> On 11-01-16 13:49, Juergen E. Fischer wrote:
>> Hi Paolo,
>>
>> On Mon, 11. Jan 2016 at 13:20:16 +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>> Thanks Juergen. So the plan is to release 2.14 LTR on Debian with Qt5,
>>> Py2, and without webkit support?
>>
>> No, we'll disable webkit where it's gone and keep the rest as is.  So no switch
>> to Qt5 or Py3.  And that applies only to stretch/testing and sid/unstable and
>> those are moving targets anyway and can break anytime.
>
> /me is on testing, I have to make my laptop windows dual boot again :-(
>
> No, don't worry I'll be okay, but I am wondering what the implications
> are of the 'disabling webkit' action.
>
> From [0] I draw the conclusion that the html widget in composer is not
> working then anymore, and I'm wondering what else is depending on
> webkit... I can do without the html widgets but...
>
> Will I be able to build QGIS without webkit then?
> Or should I stop updating Debian on my machine untill QGIS 3.0 :-)
>
> Let's have a chat about it in next PSC meeting next wednesday
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
> [0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/29
>
>
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Alexander Bruy