[Qgis-developer] Qt4->Qt5 timeline: Qt4's status and Qt4's webkit removal in Stretch

[Luigi Pirelli]

tank you for this analysis

regards, Luigi Pirelli

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On 9 May 2015 at 12:38, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 05/02/2015 10:19 AM, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
>> basing of these info, timeline for transition is imposed by debian distribution
>>
>> http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/qt4s-status-and-qt4s-webkit-removal-in.html
>
> Triggered by this announcement, a recent bugreport about the Qt4WebKit
> removal [1], and the discussion on this list, I've investigated
> switching the qgis Debian package to Qt5.
>
> In Debian there are at least two missing dependencies before the qgis
> package can be switched to Qt5: python-qscintilla2 from the qscintilla2
> source package, and libqwt-dev from the qwt source package.
>
> qwt is currently at version 6.0.0, which is not intended for Qt5
> according to upstream, for Qt5 Qwt >= 6.1 should be used. There is a
> bugreport requesting an update to Qwt 6.1 from 2013 [2]. Fortunately
> Ubuntu already has qwt 6.1.1 [3]. This packaging can be merged back into
> Debian, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer said he might take a look at
> that.
>
> qscintilla2 only provides Python 3 bindings for Qt5, there doesn't seem
> to be a Qt5 equivalent for python-qscintilla2. So we may need to switch
> QGIS to Python 3 too.
>
> How feasible is switching to Python 3?
>
> The Python maintainers in Debian strive to move away from Python 2 in
> the next two development cycles (for stretch & buster) as announced [4]
> earlier. The qgis package will need to switch in that time frame too.
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/784514
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/733153
> [3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qwt
> [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00005.html
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>
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