[PyQt] Plans for PyQt with respect to Qt 5.6

[Phil Thompson]

On 18 Dec 2015, at 7:03 pm, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:
> 
> * Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> [2015-12-18 18:39:30 +0000]:
>> On 18 Dec 2015, at 6:26 pm, Detlev Offenbach <detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Phil,
>>> 
>>> I would like to know about your plans with respect to Qt 5.6. I am specially worried about the fact, that they dropped QtWebKit from the sources (see the Qt 5.6 Beta announcement). Does this mean, that PyQt5 will not support QtWebKit anymore? That would kill eric's help viewer/web browser.
>> 
>> PyQt5 v5.6 will support QtWebKit when built against Qt v5.5 and earlier.
> 
> What if it's built against Qt 5.6, with QtWebKit installed from the
> repository? That's the way Qt still supports so far, and as far as I
> know, they ensure it still compiles.

The "official" position is that PyQt supports the Qt releases, nothing more, nothing less.

However, if it easy to reference an external copy of QtWebKit (via new flags to configure.py) then I'm happy to accept patches that implement that support. Such patches will not be tested (except to make sure they don't break regular builds).

> I'm guessing that's what distributions will do (at least I confirmed
> Archlinux will), so it'd be sad if they had to drop PyQt5.QtWebKit.

That's the real problem for Detlev. What are the Linux distros going to do regarding QtWebKit?

Phil