Policy regarding QtWebKit and QtScript

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Friday 25 December 2015 12:42:26 you wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 24. Dezember 2015 12:14:06 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 December 2015 16:07:06 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > > The idea that users may have remainders of QtWebKit 5.5 on their disk
> > > > (or
> > > > not and thus unresolvable linkage) and install Qt 5.6 and still have
> > > > (not
> > > > recompiled) client code that is now gonna crash scares me a bit - it
> > > > doesn't really improve reputation. Distros will virtually *have* to
> > > > provide
> > > > downstream webkit solutions to cover 3rd party installs and we'll get
> > > > "somthing broke" reports on this all over the place.
> > > 
> > > What we distro packagers are going to do is to recompile QtWebkit for as
> > > long  ans possible/necessary.
> > 
> > If I recall correctly, the FreeBSD guys say that QtWebEngine (is that what
> > the new thing is called) is an absolute terror to get building in FreeBSD.
> > There are apparently source-compatibility issues and it takes a great big
> > stonkin' machine to compile it at all.
> 
> Sorry, but how is "it takes long to compile" and argument for or against a
> piece of software if there is no feature equivalent alternative that takes
> less time to compile?

Please don't focus on *one* single part of what I explicitly indicated was at-
that-time-hearsay. Since then I've actually tried to compile Qt 5.6 beta.
 
> Qt WebEngine is far easier to compile than Qt WebKit in my experience, and
> it certainly doesn't take significantly longer. And of course the former is
> far superior than the latter.

This bit makes it harder:

./tools/qmake/mkspecs/features/functions.prf:    skipBuild("Qt WebEngine can 
currently only be built for Linux (GCC/clang), Windows (MSVC 2013 or 2015), OS 
X (10.9/XCode 5.1+) or Qt for Device Creation.")

So from the FreeBSD packagers' side, it *is* a big deal, because they not only 
have to get KDE software to work (which has traditionally been very cross-
platform, and is easy to work with), and Qt to work (which has traditionally 
been very cross-platform, and is generally easy to work with), but also deal 
with 975MB of Chromium. That is, as they say, quite a lump of coal in the 
stocking.

[ade]