QtWebKit is deprecated [was: Re: detecting Windows 10 [was: Re: [PATCH] Fix Bluetooth address truncation]]

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Sep 20, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:18:36AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> 
>> I forgot to upgrade the build server for the Windows binaries to Qt5.5 :-(
>> 
>> Grmbl. Doing that right now... there may be a Beta 3 quicker than expected.
> 
> Or not. MXE no longer builds QtWebKit by default (because it can't be
> built statically) and when enabled the build fails and as usual looking
> at the build output tells me absolutely nothing.
> 
> Googling some more of course immediately arrives at "oh, QtWebKit is
> deprecated in Qt5.4 and later".
> 
> Which leads me to go "<censored>"
> 
> So we really want to build with Qt5.5 for several of the features we use
> (especially BT), but we also rely on a component that is deprecated in
> Qt5.5 and no longer built on one of our platforms and the idiot maintainer
> didn't notice this until after releasing Beta 2.
> 
> So now what? Switch to QtWebEngine way into the beta cycle?
> 
> From what I can tell the only point where we need QtWebKit is printer.cpp
> (which is why I'm even bringing this up)... how hard would it be to not
> need QtWebKit???

Oh, and that also includes the QWebView that we use for the user manual.

Not. Happy.

/D