[Interest] QWE hacking: "backporting" src/3rdparty/chromium?

[René J.V. Bertin]

Hi,

Out of curiosity, how feasible would it be to deploy a more up-to-date QtWebEngine on a system that's stuck on an older Qt version. I understood from a previous exchange that QWE is much more a "thin wrapper" around the actual web engine than QtWebKit is, with the intention of making it easier to upgrade that component. If so, it might be possible to replace the src/3rdparty/chromium directory from, say, 5.8.0 with the one from 5.9.7 and get things to build with only minimal patching.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
R.