2015-04-20 19:28 GMT+03:00 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez <perezme...@gmail.com>: > Hi everyone! I'm one of Debian's Qt maintainers and I'm writing here due to > the problem that QtWebEngine poses for us distros (in this case, at least > Debian and Fedora). > > I know that kdepim seems to depend on it now. Sadly QtWebEngine it's quite a > hard (very hard) piece of software to package. > > It embeds quite a lot of 3rd party stuff which we distros don't accept (in > different grades depending on the distro) as we require to build using the > system versions. Fedora's Rex Dieter tells me that's actually why chromium is > not available for them. > > Moreover we can't build debugging symbols on most archs due to the enormous > amount of RAM+swap it involves in the linking process (more than 8GB last time > I checked). This is at least the same as QtWebKit, but seems to be getting > worse. > > Yes, we do understand that QtWebEngine is technically superior to any other > thing out there but making that code an acceptable package is another thing. > > So basically what I'm trying to say is: don't expect us down streamers to > easily package QtWebEngine soon, if we ever get to it. > > I'm really sorry if this comes as "bad news", but the reality is currently > this :(
And if such large-community distros like Debian and Fedora have issues, what to say about smaller ones? Also, QtWebEngine isn't ported outside of Linux, Windows and MacOS X at all. I'm an OpenBSD developer, maintaining almost all Qt and KDE ports for now. And I can clearly say that I won't ever start working on QtWebEngine: chromium port in OpenBSD (maintained by a different person) already has 285 (sic!) local patches, so QtWebEngine will need at least as much. That's, obviously, too much. So until something changes, there will be no KF5-based PIM on OpenBSD. I'm not in favor of using outdated QtWebkit module either: it's likely full of security holes, so it's not the thing you want to throw incoming email at. Could some sa[fn]e, compact, non-JS engine be used for viewing mail and other PIM activities? What options do KDE PIM people see? -- WBR, Vadim Zhukov