[PyQt] Plans for PyQt with respect to Qt 5.6

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Saturday 19 December 2015, 19:49:22 Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 01:11:09AM +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> According to Qt developer Thiago Macieira there will be official QtWebKit
> 5.6
> tarballs available [1]:
> | Actually, QtWebKit is guaranteed to work for at least a couple more
> | versions. We’ve just revisited the decision and will release a version
> | 5.6 of it that does compile.
> | 
> | But it will not be included in the main binaries. You’ll need to build
> | from
> | sources.
> 

Phil, how will you treat this situation with respect to the Windows installer, which includes 
a copy of the Qt libraries? Will it include QtWebKit?

> In Debian we will use those tarballs, so nothing will change for us.
> 
> There should also be no patches needed for PyQt to support it, as there will
> be no packaging changes between QtWebKit 5.5 and QtWebKit 5.6 (except for
> availability in binary installers).
> 
> [1]: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/12/18/qt-5-6-beta-released/#comment-1196968
> 
> --
> Dmitry Shachnev-- 
*Detlev Offenbach*
detlev at die-offenbachs.de
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