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

[Kai Koehne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 4:14 PM
> To: Kai Koehne <Kai.Koehne at qt.io>
> Cc: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] QWE hacking: "backporting" src/3rdparty/chromium?
> 
> On Wednesday November 07 2018 14:48:30 Kai Koehne wrote:
> 
> > What we're trying to support though is building a newer qtwebengine.git
> against older Qt versions (usually last LTS).
> >
> > For your example with Qt 5.8 I'm not sure, because there were some
> configuration system changes that probably require some fixes.
> >
> > But you can build qtwebengine 5.11 branch against Qt 5.9.
> 
> Ah, that's also good to know, thanks. Does that also mean QWE 5.11 builds on
> all platforms where Qt 5.9 builds (I'm thinking of Mac OS versions in
> particular)?

Well, Qt 5.11 dropped support for macOS 10.11. So indeed you might
run into issues there ☹

Kai