[Development] Please do not remove QtWebkit from 5.6 official binaries

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Thu Dec 3 13:41:45 CET 2015


On Thursday 03 December 2015, Mark De Wit wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> QtWebEngine does not yet have feature parity with QtWebkit.  For instance,
> print support (especially export to PDF) is a critical requirement for my
> use of Webkit.  This missing feature prevents me from migrating to
> WebEngine.
> 
> Removing webkit from the official distribution will prevent me (and surely
> others) from upgrading to 5.6.
> 
Besides being possible to use QtWebKit from 5.5 with Qt 5.6, there are also 
QtWebKit 5.6.0 sources in git, they are just not part of the official release.

Regards
`Allan



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