[Interest] Futur of Qt Webengine in Qt 6

[Frank Hemer]

On Montag, 12. April 2021 17:35:43 CEST Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Montag, 12. April 2021 13:20:36 CEST Frank Hemer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > i wonder what are the plans for Qt Webengine in Qt 6.
> > 
> > While webkit has been removed and replaced by webengine, there is still no
> > replacement supported by the mingw compiler yet.
> > As a commercial customer it was disappointing enought this happened within
> > a minor release but even more to be told (by commercial support) that
> > there currently is no replacement available - and no schedule for a
> > replacement.
> > 
> > Does this mean we have to go back in time using com interfaces or are
> > there
> > other plans on this?
> 
> The plans for Qt WebEngine in Qt 6 does not include support for mingw. But
> like Qt 5 we do support building with clang-cl, if you only need to avoid
> MSVC.

Hmm - regarding qt5, webengine-platform-notes tells me vs2017 version 15.8 or 
later is required.
So i can't go w/o msvc, can i?

Best regards
Frank