[Interest] QtWebkit error while building Qt5.12.7 sources

[Ramakanth Kesireddy]

Ok let me try with 5.212..Whether it is compatible with Qt sources starting
from 5.6 till the latest 5.12.7 and 5.14?

On Wed, 19 Feb, 2020, 22:36 Konstantin Tokarev, <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:

>
>
> 19.02.2020, 10:53, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> > On Tuesday, 18 February 2020 16:29:13 PST Sze Howe Koh wrote:
> >>  On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 08:05, Thiago Macieira <
> thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >>  > There's no good solution for using qtwebkit. You have to stop using
> it.
> >>
> >>  I was under the impression that Konstantin Tokarev was keeping the Qt
> >>  WebKit sources up-to-date with upstream WebKit, even though it's not
> >>  part of the official Qt releases?
> >
> > Such impression existed and Konstantin did update the release. There are
> > certainly some commits in the repository. But looking at the activity
> for the
> > past year, almost everything seems to be related to keeping the
> buildsystem
> > working. I can't find any commit referring to a fixing a security issue.
>
> That's correct, most of the work in last year is targeted to a new branch
> with updated
> WebKit. However, 5.212 serves its job well, it's compatible with current
> Qt and is at
> least is strictly better than 5.9 in terms of bugs, features and security.
> Of course, it
> should be used with caution on untrusted content, because of possible
> security issues.
>
> >
> > In the end, the 5.212 branch base itself is too old. qtwebkit would need
> a new
> > base branch off webkit to be a reasonable target and that has not
> happened.
> >
> > Please, let it die.
> >
> > --
> > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
> >   Software Architect - Intel System Software Products
> >
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> Regards,
> Konstantin
>
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