WebKit -> WebEngine

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 at 19:00, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> it was discussed in the past that the WebEngine change has to happen
> eventually, but i think i recall blockers outside of the usage in
> printing and user manual - e.g. build process, distribution?
> could be wrong, not remembering correctly. if that is not longer the
> case, great...
>

i think the major blocker here was that building QWebEngine on Windows
does not work with MINGW. required MSVC.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-platform-notes.html#all-platforms

>> Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 or later, or clang-cl version 8 or later

they seem to support clang now as well.

the framework we are using to cross-build Subsurface from Linux to
Windows (MXE) did not provide QWebEngine binaries.
has this changed?

porting from WebKit to WebEngine is fine, but if we can't build it and
deploy it with the current set of tools, that's a problem.
cc Dirk, as he might remember these details better.

one question i would have is - what is the motivation for this port
and what do we gain from it?

lubomir
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