From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add qtwebkit.
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:22:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161030002214.GA18050@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161028.112601.737405433041352600.post@thomasdanckaert.be>
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:26:01AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this patch adds QtWebKit 5.7 as a separate package (hopefully this
> will reduce security concerns: only packages which really need
> QtWebKit will include it).
>
> QtWebKit is not officially supported anymore as of Qt 5.6, so this is
> a “community release” (not exactly sure what that entails, or if this
> includes any updates at all since the Qt 5.5 version). I suppose many
> projects are switching to Qt WebEngine, and there are some efforts to
> create an updated version of QtWebKit
> (https://github.com/annulen/webkit), but in the mean time, this
> package might help build packages which still rely on the old
> QtWebKit.
Interesting!
Is there any official statement from Qt about these "community
releases"? I see that it is hosted on qt.io, so presumably they are
somehow blessed by Qt, but I'd like more information.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-30 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-28 9:26 [PATCH] gnu: Add qtwebkit Thomas Danckaert
2016-10-28 14:44 ` Roel Janssen
2016-11-02 12:35 ` Roel Janssen
2016-11-02 13:00 ` Thomas Danckaert
2016-11-02 13:32 ` Roel Janssen
2016-10-30 0:22 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-11-02 13:05 ` Thomas Danckaert
2016-11-05 18:45 ` Leo Famulari
2016-11-05 20:24 ` Thomas Danckaert
2016-11-07 9:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-07 9:47 ` Roel Janssen
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