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

Nyall Dawson nyall.dawson at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 00:21:51 PDT 2016


On 14 September 2016 at 17:13, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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.

Ah - maybe I've got this wrong. I thought it was getting cut off with 5.6.

So that's good news, I guess we can stick with QtWebKit for the life
of QGIS 3. and hope the situation is better when 4 rolls around....


> 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.

More like we're all totally swamped and exhausted as it is ;)

Nyall


>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
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