[PyQt] Roadmap, Future Releases etc.

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sun Jan 24 16:17:26 GMT 2016


> On 24 Jan 2016, at 2:46 pm, Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com> wrote:
> 
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> On January 24, 2016 9:30:00 AM EST, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>> On 24 Jan 2016, at 2:09 pm, Detlev Offenbach <detlev at die-offenbachs.de>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Phil,
>>> 
>>> thanks for sharing this roadmap info with us. I have one question
>> related to how you plan to support QtWebKit in the future. According to
>> info given by qt.io this will not be included in the Qt installers
>> starting from Qt 5.6 anymore. However, I think there are quite a few
>> people around that would like to use it (e.g. with eric) but don't want
>> to install a complete C++ development environment just to compile it on
>> Windows. Any idea how to deal with this situation without causing pains
>> on either side?
>> 
>> Sorry no. If qt.io don't want the burden of providing it then I
>> certainly don't want to take it on. I'm not saying I agree with their
>> decision, but I'm not in the position of being able to provide a
>> solution.
> 
> AIUI, they are still providing source releases.  You're going to continue to support that, right?

Yes, if they are part of the official release. If not then I won't do anything to break things, but they won't be officially supported.

Phil


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