[Interest] Qt WebEngine 5.15.3 tag

[Benjamin TERRIER]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 22:41, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:

> Hey Tuukaa,
>
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 09:24:23PM +0000, Tuukka Turunen wrote:
> > I do understand the desire to have a supported / tagged release of QWE
> > and it is possible that it might even work quite well on an earlier
> > release of Qt. However, we are testing it in conjunction with the
> > other changes of a new patch level release and do not want to give a
> > guarantee that new releases of QWE would always work with earlier
> > releases of other modules.
>
> I see, this is indeed something I hadn't considered.
>
> However, your documentation indicates that this is officially supported:
>
> https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-platform-notes.html#using-earlier-qt-versions-to-build-qt-webengine
>
> "Building Qt WebEngine with earlier Qt versions (down to the last LTS
> version) is supported. It means that Qt WebEngine 5.15 can be built with
> Qt 5.12.x, Qt 5.14.x, and Qt 5.15."
>
> (Sure, it says "can be built" and not "was tested" or "actually works",
> though that's kind of implied there)
>
>
Yes, QWE officially supports being built with older Qt versions.
So if  QWE 5.15.3 works with any commercial Qt 5.15, it should work the
same with any open-source 5.15.

There was also a recent blog post about this:
https://www.qt.io/blog/building-qt-webengine-against-other-qt-versions
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