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Re: Where is qtwebkit?


From: Roel Janssen
Subject: Re: Where is qtwebkit?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:47:35 +0200
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ng0 writes:

> I am currently packaging supercollider, and it would be nice to have
> qtwebkit... but I can't find it for Guix. How do I use it in a packaging
> defition? Do we have it at all? Is someone working on it? I've read a
> thread where someone pointed out it was moved but that was of no help
> either.
>
> * Qt >= 5.3 (+ qtwebkit)
>    * http://qt-project.org
>    * cross-platform graphical user interface library, for Qt IDE and sclang's 
> Qt GUI kit

I think QtWebkit has been removed from Qt in favor of the QtWebEngine
(based on Chromium?).

>From https://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/03/16/qt-5-6-released/:
> With 5.6, Qt WebKit and Qt Quick 1 will no longer be supported and are
> dropped from the release. The source code for these modules will still
> be available. You can continue to compile and use these modules, but
> we will not be supporting them any longer.

So it should still be possible to compile the source code.  I downloaded
the source code and tried to compile it but I couldn't find any 'find
. -name "*webkit*"' at all!

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen



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