reverted marble mess

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Jul 18 09:59:30 PDT 2017


> On Jul 18, 2017, at 9:41 AM, Axel Richter <Axel.Richter at freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 15.07.2017 um 07:53 schrieb Dirk Hohndel:
>> Since Tomaz hasn't had the time to fix the broken marble source (and
>> currently builds from source were failing) I reverted the merge of his
>> changes. Of course that means I need to be extra careful to handle this
>> branch moving forward, because if we decide to do this merge after all, I
>> first need to revert the revert. If this seems strange, read
>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
>> for explanation from the master's mouth (or fingers).
>> 
>> In the mean time, builds should work again.
> 
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> thank a lot for your 'early morning commit'. Its better now, but how can I prevent marble from needing Qt5WebKitWidgets?

That's the reason why Tomaz wanted to update Marble, but why we are 
in the end moving away from Marble. The older version we use requires
WebKit. Most Linux distributions still ship that - but if your distro doesn't,
then you'll have to either build Qt5WebKit from source, or disable Marble.

/D


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