[Development] Deprecating modules with 5.5

[Alexey Pavlov]

2015-02-03 11:49 GMT+03:00 Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at theqtcompany.com>:

> On 03/02/15 09:35, "Alexey Pavlov" <alexpux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >2015-02-03 10:33 GMT+03:00 Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at theqtcompany.com>:
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I’d like to mark a few modules as deprecated with 5.5, and most likely
> >remove them from the binary packages with 5.6. These modules are:
> >
> >* Qt WebKit
> >* Qt Declarative (Qt Quick 1)
> >* Qt Script
> >
> >All of these modules are by now a couple of years old, don’t receive
> >updates above the bare minimum and have a replacement that is actively
> >being developed in Qt 5.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Does this mean that QtWebEngine will be provided for Mingw targets
> >instead Webkit? Now Mingw can't build QWebEngine.
>
> It’ll probably be difficult to build WebEngine against Mingw, but I hope
> that we can build it with clang on Windows when 5.6 comes. Currently you
> have to use MSVC if you need WebEngine on Windows.
>
> But we don’t really have a choice, as there is no upstream for Qt WebKit
> anymore. This implies that we’d have to fully develop that fork on our own
> to support is. That in turn requires a team far larger than what we have.
> So it’s simply not doable.
>


So Qt 5.6 can  drop mingw support?


> Cheers,
> Lars
>
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