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

[Paolo Cavallini]

Seems a rather serious issue. Shouldn't we reconsider our roadmap accordingly?
All the best.

Il 10 maggio 2015 11:25:23 CEST, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> ha scritto:
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>On 05/10/2015 10:51 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> On 05/09/2015 03:28 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>> Il 09/05/2015 12:38, Sebastiaan Couwenberg ha scritto:
>>> 
>>>> How feasible is switching to Python 3?
>>> I believe this would be a huge issue: most or all plugins will
>>> not work, both the internal and the external ones, so our qgis
>>> will be badly lame. Thanks for raising this point.
>>> 
>> There will probably be no PyQt4/Qt5 package but only a PyQt5/Qt5
>> package? If there's a PyQt4/Qt5 package the upgrade process should
>> be rather painless. If there's none, all plugins will need an
>> update anyway and IMO the two changes PyQt5 and Python 3 should be
>> grouped. Sebastiaan, do you know anything about this package?
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>I'm not involved in the Python or PyQt packaging, so I have no
>intimate knowledges of those packages.
>
>Both the python-qt4 [1] and pyqt5 [2] packages in Debian have the same
>people involved. They may be willing to provide a python-qt4 package
>built with qt5.
>
>[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-qt4
>[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyqt5
>
>> The other issue is that there's a rather big dependency on
>> QtWebkit currently. We are struggling already with that on
>> Android. Alternatives * QtWebEngine is the future but only
>> available starting from Qt 5.4. So this is not an option now. *
>> QLabel/QML: Where it's only used for richtext, a QLabel can be
>> used. Where there's javascript involved it may be worth
>> investigating the use of QML.
>
>The planned removal of the Qt4 WebKit component in Debian is the
>primary reason to switch to Qt5. Sticking to the Qt5 Webkit until Qt
>5.4 is widely available seems like the road of least resistance.
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Bas
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