[PyQt] support for upgraded qtwebkit initiative?

[Florian Bruhin]

* Dan Hopkins <dan.hopkins at hanzoarchives.com> [2017-01-31 16:25:32 +0000]:
> On 5 Dec 2016, at 9:26 am, Peter Bienstman <peter.bienstman at
> gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > There is an initiative to upgrade qtwebkit to play nice with the
> > latest Qt, which even seems to be making it into the official Qt
> > project:
> > 
> > http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2016-June/026156.html
> > 
> > 
> >  https://github.com/annulen/webkit/releases
> > 
> > Is there a plan to provide PyQt support for this?
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Did you (or anyone else) try and succeed with PyQt and QtWebKit-NG?

Yes - I'm now using the qtwebkit-ng package on Archlinux which
replaces the normal one.

> My compilations from source for
> PyQt-5.7.1/sip-4.19/Qt-5.7.1/QtWebKit[stable] on Ubuntu 14.04 segfault
> consistently in libQt5WebKit.so

Do you have a stacktrace?

> Florian mentioned it should work with LD_PRELOAD
> (https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2016-December/038398.html)
> although it's not clear to me if that was just to circumvent system
> installed qt/webkit components or for another reason.

Yeah, just to have -ng working in parallel with the system-wide one.

Florian

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