so apparently Qt 5.7 was released

Thiago Macieira thiago at macieira.org
Thu Jun 16 08:10:27 PDT 2016


On quinta-feira, 16 de junho de 2016 07:00:50 PDT Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> Not sure if it fixes any of our bugs, but it will likely cause problems for
> the desktop version that still uses WebKit which was deprecated in 5.6 and
> which I believe is now gone. So someone will have to spend the time to make
> sure that Subsurface can be built both with Qt 5.5 and with Qt 5.7 - which
> likely means that we will need duplicate code for the rendering of the user
> manual and for the FB connector (those are the two I can think of right
> now).

QtWebKit is available still in 5.7 and we've made sure it builds, but that's 
about it. It might not be available in pre-built packages, but you can 
download the source and build (note: you probably want 8 GB of RAM or more to 
build, but I do build it on two machines with 4, so I know it works).

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