[Qgis-psc] QGIS - QT6 Build Status Report

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2023, 8:46 pm Régis Haubourg via QGIS-PSC, <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi Ale,
>
> thanks lot for this work.
>
> If I understand correctly, the path to circumvent html vectorisation
> through intermediate pdf might work but brings a one-man library in the
> loop and a fragile dependency to the pdf format.
>

Correct.

>
> Even if the previous experience let us pessimistic about the possibility
> of a Qt's upstream work, I would explore this possibility in any case.
>
> Because Qt needs to know downstream projects need it.
>
> Because fixing upstream is always more efficient.
>
> Because it is not expensive to ask KDAB and ask Qt's project.
>

I honestly believe that path is shut. KDAB were asked but were unwilling to
explore this because they also saw it as something which is high risk and
extremely unlikely to be accepted in Qt.

>
> Because smart workarounds are fragile and in the end a Velociraptor
> appears from the bushes and eats you alive.
>
> Is there any other major blocker ?
>
I still strongly believe this is the only **realistic** way forward. It's
far from ideal (and not the path I would ever want to go for something like
this), but the only alternative is just dropping this functionality from
qgis ☹️

Nyall



> Regards
>
> Régis
>
>
> On 12/12/2023 14:15, Alessandro Pasotti via QGIS-PSC wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> as you probably know during the developers meeting in s-Hertogenbosch
> it was decided to allocate a budget for developers that wanted to
> dedicate some time to remove the blockers that prevented QGIS to be
> eventually migrated to QT6.
>
> I volunteered to coordinate the effort and organized a few meetings to
> track the advancement of the efforts.
>
> The good news is that thanks to the efforts and the brilliant work of
> the participants we now have made significant steps towards the goal.
>
> Here are the last QT6 meeting minutes:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9X3pMXJgB1pIs2sFX5O22-TJEmLYuA4ujYis7EGXpE
>
> Kind regards.
>
>
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