[Qgis-developer] Wiki page/area for 'Building QGIS from scratch'
gordon at shieldaig.com
gordon at shieldaig.com
Tue Mar 21 17:59:31 PDT 2017
On 2017-03-21 20:12, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On 22 March 2017 at 08:26, <gordon at shieldaig.com> wrote:
>
>> Also, I question further development using WebKit when Qt has moved to
>> WebEngine. Wouldn't adopting WebEngine make sense or at least present
>> why
>> it isn't.
>
> As Tom has said, WebEngine isn't a suitable replacement. It's a very,
> *very* cut down version of QWebKit which lacks many of the methods we
> require.
>
> Until the Qt WebEngine backend is brought up to feature parity with
> QWebKit we won't be porting -- it's just not possible to do.
>
> Nyall
Thanks for the clarification.
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