[Qgis-developer] Plans for QGIS 3.0 and QWebView.... *sigh*

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 09/14/2016 09:02 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> On 09/14/2016 08:46 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 09/14/2016 08:26 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>> QtWebKit is not removed, is it?
>>
>> Not yet, but will be (in Debian) since there is no more upstream
>> security support for WebKit in Qt4 now that it's EOL. Continuing to rely
>> on WebKit in Qt4 is irresponsible from a security POV.
> 
> We will be switching to Qt5 soon, this discussion only targets the Qt5
> version, so this is no issue.

For Qt5 it's no problem, that's still supported upstream.

I thought you meant like the embedded copy of python-qt4.

> In the meanwhile it would be nice if QGIS users wouldn't be forced to
> switch to other distributions.

It would be great if QGIS were to support changes in its dependencies
sooner, and not wait until they are (near) EOL. I guess the incentive
isn't there when there is no funding for it.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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