[Qgis-developer] Wiki page/area for 'Building QGIS from scratch'

[gordon at shieldaig.com]

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.