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

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 09/14/2016 09:13 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg 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.
> 
> 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.

I've started working on Qt5 transitions without any funding way more
than a year ago.

Regards,

Matthias