[Qgis-developer] Qt4->Qt5 timeline: WebKit and WebEngine in Fedora

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi all,

FYI

this was just sent out for the upcoming Fedora version.

== Detailed Description ==
QtWebEngine is the new web engine by the Qt project based on Chromium,
effectively replacing QtWebKit, though it is not a drop-in
replacement. QtWebEngine will be available in Fedora as an additional
option. QtWebKit will remain available for the foreseeable future, and
thus applications currently using QtWebKit are not impacted by this
change, unless and until upstream ports them to QtWebEngine. The
version initially packaged for Fedora 24 will be QtWebEngine 5.6.


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/QtWebEngine

Matthias

On 01/09/2016 11:08 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 10-05-15 14:44, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 05/10/2015 02:16 PM, Anita Graser wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>>> Seems a rather serious issue. Shouldn't we reconsider our roadmap
>>>> accordingly?
>>>>
>>> ​I don't seem to be able to find any dates mentioned in the linked
>>> resources. When (date) will Debian remove Qt4?
>> The Debian Qt maintainers didn't give definitive dates in their
>> announcement [1], but they mention that Qt upstream is about to release
>> the last Qt4 point release (4.8.7), Qt upstream also recommends keeping
>> Qt4 until 2017 which translates to the end of the jessie stable release.
>>
>> The next two years must be used to move away from Qt4 to Qt5. During
>> that time Qt4 components will be removed when they cannot be supported
>> anymore. The Qt4 Webkit component will be the first to go. Regarding its
>> removal the Qt maintainers said:
>>
>> "
>>  Of course we still have a lot of KDE stuff using Qt4's webkit, so it
>>  won't disappear "soon", but it will at some point.
>> "
>>
>> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg00001.html
> The severity of the "Qt4's WebKit removal" bugreport in Debian has been
> raised to serious (Release Critical), because a "new python-qt4 upload
> with removed QtWebKit module will happen shortly".
>
> QGIS will no longer build on Debian sid after this upload as long as it
> requires Qt4's WebKit.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>

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