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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday 20 September 2015 23:08:46 Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 20 September 2015 at 23:03, Thiago Macieira <thiago at macieira.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 September 2015 12:57:28 Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> >>  A major pain for Linux.
> >> 
> >> Ubuntu 14.04 is on Qt 5.2
> >> Fedora 21 is on Qt 5.3
> > 
> > Sorry to make the problems worse, but some distros have declared that they
> > will not carry qtwebengine because its chromium dependency (and the fact
> > that it bundles a lot of libraries). Qt developers have been working with
> > Google developers to unbundle chromium/qtwebengine, but I don't know how
> > far along that has gone.
> 
> wow... :(
> so what are they planning to base it upon if it's not chromium and webkit?

They're not.

Those distributions have said they will not include any applications that 
depend on Blink.

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