[Interest] Oops! Somebody's got a bad case of dependency bloat!

Alejandro Exojo aexojo at modpow.es
Wed Apr 10 15:00:18 CEST 2013


2013/4/10 Christian Dähn <daehn at asinteg.de>:
> as commercial customer I currently DON'T UPGRADE to Qt 5.0 BECAUSE of these
> messy dependencies.
>
> WebKit and its dependencies are a serious SHOW STOPPER for our industrial
> applications -
> for desktop (widget based) and server backend.

I don't get it. WebKit is totally optional. What's the problem?
Changes in WebKit from the 4.8 series? The 4.8 to 5.0 upgrade is quite
an easy one for a *major* release.

> So I wait till I have enough free time to fix the messy dependency problems
> and the many porting issues
> (like deprecated QString::toAscii() for example) für my few million
> codelines... maybe I've to spent more than
> just one lunch time for it :-D

QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0

Done.

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Alejandro Exojo Piqueras

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