[Development] Deprecating modules with 5.5

[Knoll Lars]

On 03/02/15 10:08, "Alexey Pavlov" <alexpux at gmail.com> wrote:

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>2015-02-03 11:49 GMT+03:00 Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at theqtcompany.com>:
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>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>:
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>>Hi,
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>>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:
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>>* Qt WebKit
>>* Qt Declarative (Qt Quick 1)
>>* Qt Script
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>>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.
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>>Does this mean that QtWebEngine will be provided for Mingw targets
>>instead Webkit? Now Mingw can't build QWebEngine.
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>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.
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>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.
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>So Qt 5.6 can  drop mingw support?

There are currently no plans in dropping mingw. But webengine is currently
not supported on that compiler.

Lars