On Tuesday 22 December 2015 16:07:06 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > The idea that users may have remainders of QtWebKit 5.5 on their disk (or > > not and thus unresolvable linkage) and install Qt 5.6 and still have (not > > recompiled) client code that is now gonna crash scares me a bit - it > > doesn't really improve reputation. Distros will virtually *have* to > > provide > > downstream webkit solutions to cover 3rd party installs and we'll get > > "somthing broke" reports on this all over the place. > > What we distro packagers are going to do is to recompile QtWebkit for as > long ans possible/necessary.
If I recall correctly, the FreeBSD guys say that QtWebEngine (is that what the new thing is called) is an absolute terror to get building in FreeBSD. There are apparently source-compatibility issues and it takes a great big stonkin' machine to compile it at all. But .. I haven't tried it myself. I probably should so I can replace the 'apparently's above with 'defiitely'. [ade]