[QGIS-Developer] Switching to KDE fork of Qt for Windows builds?

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Nyall,

On Fri, 04. Mar 2022 at 11:36:07 +1000, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> I'm wondering if it's possible to switch over the Windows (osgeo4w)
> builds of Qt from the upstream 5.15.2 package over to the (maintained)
> KDE 5.15 backports fork. We're missing a bunch of important fixes on
> Windows (especially the PDF output related fixes) which are available
> in KDE's fork.
> 
> Is this a major task to do?

Well, depends on your point of view.  It's a long task at least - building will
take ages.  But if it just contains patches, then there's probably much more
patience required than actual work.  And I guess it wouldn't require rebuilds
of reverse dependencies (like qtwebkit to name the heaviest one).


Jürgen

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