[Development] QtWebEngine and Qt 6 (was: Re: Can your module be included in Qt 6?)

[Florian Bruhin]

Hey,

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:53:55AM +0000, Lars Knoll wrote:
> As you can see, the scope of 6.0 will be reduced compared to 5.15.

So now that it's official that QtWebEngine won't be part of Qt 6.0:

What will that mean for security upgrades (i.e. updates of the underlying
Chromium) for open source users of Qt as soon as Qt 6.0 is out?

Given that the 5.15 LTS is restricted to commercial users[1], does that mean
that open source projects will be stuck on Qt 5.15.4 (or .3 or .5 or whatever)
until Qt 6.1 is released in May/June 2021 or so?

If that's the case, I'm not sure that'll help Qt's reputation when it comes to
its handling of security issues... Don't get me wrong, I can understand where
TQtC is coming from with the commercial-only LTS decision - but if there are no
QtWebEngine security fixes for open source users at all for what's probably
more than half a year (the time between the last 5.15.x before 6.0; and 6.1),
that seems like a huge problem, no?

I'm all for "We are making this change to encourage open-source users to
quickly adopt new versions" (from that blog post), but what if that's not
possible because those new versions don't exist at the point the old versions
get abandoned? Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to make the 5.15 LTS
commercial-only only at the point Qt 6.1 is released, at least for all modules
not part of Qt 6.0?

[1] https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020

Florian

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