Subsurface on Apple Silicone

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Oct 22, 2021, at 1:57 PM, Robert Helling wrote:
> 
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> thanks a lot for your update. 
> 
>> On 15. Oct 2021, at 23:20, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org <mailto:dirk at hohndel.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> OK, since I had a day off today I didn't only finish 5.0.4, I also decided to at least poke a toe into this mess.
>> 
>> The summary of what I've learned so far?
>> 
>> UGH.
>> 
>> QtWebKit doesn't work with Qt 6 and it appears that no one is interested in porting that monster.
>> Frankly, I can't blame them.
>> 
>> Which means that we can't support printing with Qt 6.
>> 
> 
> I am only writing to report I started looking again into getting rid of  WebKit. I think even without the option to proceed to Qt 6, this would be a good idea. After all, the only place where we really rely on it is to figure out the page breaks when printing more than one dive. 
> 
> Progress is quite slow though as my time is currently limited (we just started in person teaching again a week ago) but so far I did not get stuck. Which I count as a good sign. 
> 
> Will keep you posted.


Some more messing around with Qt 6... we're not only losing QtWebKit - there's also no Qt Location and no Qt Positioning. Which means no map module that we can use.

/D

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