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

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 09/14/2016 09:23 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> 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.

Yes, and props to your for that. If only you had more helping hands
longer before Qt4 went EOL.

Qt4 went EOL in December 2014 and was eventually extended to December
2015, the work on Qt5 support in QGIS was still very late in the Qt4
lifetime.

Work on Qt5 support should have started when Qt 5.0.0 was released and
planned to be ready when Qt4 originally went EOL. That's what I expected
for such an essential component of QGIS, and what made me so
disappointed about how the Qt4/Qt5 situation was actually handled.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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