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

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 01/11/2016 04:14 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11.01.2016 15:44, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Il 11/01/2016 14:35, Alexander Bruy ha scritto:
>>> Hi Richard,
>>>
>>> QWebView also used by Processing for displaying help and maybe also
>>> by QGIS help system too.
>> AFAIU now in Debian we have qscintilla2 also for Python2, so the plans
>> are to compile QGIS with Qt5+Py2. Therefore, the main issue for Debian
>> testing/sid users will be webkit. Considering that 2.14 is an LTR, and
>> we plan to extend its duration to 2 years, wouldn't it be feasible to
>> try and reduce the problem, at least for Processing, replacing webkit
>> with something else?
>> Thanks a lot.
> hm - I (and probably others) use the HTML widget in the print composer
> quite a lot. It is the only way to have richer content in print
> composer. Not a good move to just compile without Webkit and there is
> no good replacement. It would cause me troubles. Can't we package and
> ship Webkit ourselves along with QGIS, if it really is a problem for
> 2.14?

The proper solution will be to implement QtWebWengine as an alternative
to QtWebKit. This will be the future for displaying web content.

Matthias
>
> Andreas
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