[Development] Qt WebKit dependency in Qt Assistant

[Kevin Kofler]

Hi,

Aleix Pol wrote:
> One of the big news lately is the deprecation of Qt WebKit module.
> 
> One of the Qt dependencies on it is assistant (which is a tool I use
> quite often, really) and AFAIK it's using it quite thoroughly. It used
> to be powered by QTextBrowser though, as far as I remember.

We tried building Qt Assistant against QTextBrowser in Fedora long ago 
(IIRC, in an attempt to get rid of the circular dependency between Qt 4 and 
QtWebKit 4). We found that it was a very bad idea because the Qt help was 
looking horrible as a result, not to mention third-party help using 
Assistant. So this was very quickly reverted to QtWebKit. AFAIK, 
QTextBrowser's HTML and especially CSS support has not improved 
significantly, if at all, since then.

This is really not funny:
* you (= the Qt project) stop maintaining QtWebKit,
* you deprecate it,
* you stop providing even security updates for it,
* and now you stop even shipping it at all,
and yet you haven't even ported YOUR OWN code away from it! (And the 
QTextBrowser "solution" leaves A LOT to be desired.)

        Kevin Kofler