[Development] Deprecating modules with 5.5

[Joseph Crowell]

It's relatively simple to compile x264 with visual studio 2013+. I was just
reading about it.
On 4 Feb 2015 11:52 pm, "Guido Seifert" <wargand at gmx.de> wrote:

> If you don't have a choice, you don't have a choice, but just saying:
> In one of my projects I needed the x264 libs:
> http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
> and the webkit. I was unable to compile x264 with MSVC. Dropping webkit
> would leave me in the inconvenient situation that either I cannot
> build x264 or the webkit replacement.
>
> IMHO not being able to build 100% of Qt with the Mingw is not a minor
> problem.
>
> Guido
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lars
> >
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