Bug#784514: [qgis] Qt4's WebKit removal

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: tags -1 pending

On 03/07/2016 10:43 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Regarding the Qt4 WebKit removal, we unfortunately cannot switch QGIS to
> Qt5 without having to disable a significant portion of its
> functionality. Most importantly, the Python support had to be disabled
> and is pretty essential for running most QGIS plugins. As discussed on
> the debian-gis list recently [0], I'd like to stick to Qt4 a little
> longer, at least until the 2.16 release which should have dual Qt4/Qt5
> support.
> 
> [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2016/02/msg00037.html

I've just uploaded the second revision of QGIS 2.14.3 which is built
with WITH_QTWEBKIT=FALSE.

This seems to be the best option to resolve this issue for the QGIS 2.14
LTR series, before we can switch to Qt5 with QGIS 2.16 (non-LTR) or 3.x LTR.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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