[Qgis-psc] Fwd: No QGIS in stretch due to Qt4 WebKit removal

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi,

The options I see are

 * Upgrade everything to Qt5 (and call it QGIS 3.0)
 * Compile on debian sid with Qt5 (no python, no web-based features)
 * Implement missing Qt5 parts inside the 2.x series

For QGIS 3.0 there are some plans what needs to be done but I think
there is no plan how to fund this and spread the work.

There are some things that need to be done for QGIS 3 anyway: finalize
python3 code, pyqt5 code and write a qtwebengine replacement for
qtwebkit code. This could be merged to master in the 2.x series and
binaries compiled this way shipped for debian sid (which acts as guinea
pig).

Best regards,
Matthias

On 01/10/2016 10:50 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all,
> what are the plans for the migration? I see Nyall has done some
> interesting (and somewhat worrisome) analysis on this [0]. Apparently a
> lot of work is necessary, and AFAIK nothing serious has been done yet.
> Perhaps better discussing it at the upcoming PSC meeting?
> All the best.
> ===
> [0]
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/29
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2015-December/040699.html
> https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues
>
> -------- Messaggio Inoltrato --------
>
> The Qt4 WebKit removal bugreport for qgis (#784514) has been raised to
> Release Critical severity which will cause its removal from testing.
>
> Because qscintilla2 doesn't support Qt5 for Python 2 and QGIS upstream
> doesn't support Python 3 yet, we cannot move away from Qt4 yet.
>
> It is not within my power to fix this, so we'll have to live with no new
> qgis builds for a while.
>
> Hopefully the upcoming QGIS 2.14 release will build successfully with
> Qt5 & Python 3 and is ready in time for stretch.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>

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