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rburcham Apprentice

Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 223
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 2:09 pm Post subject: dev-qt:4 versions/packaging/roadmap |
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I apologize if this is a faq or if the answer is clear. I haven't found it yet. I'm interested in the roadmap for Gentoo support for dev-qt/qt*:4
For example, today portage shows ebuilds for dev-qt/qtcore-4.8.6-r2, dev-qt/qtwebkit-4.8.6-r1, etc. This qtwebkit ebuild produces /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtWebKit.so.4.9.4.
Meanwhile other distros are showing libQtWebKit.so.4.10.2. There are some critical fixes in this more recent revision of qtwebkit. How can I build this generation of dev-qt/qt* on Gentoo?
I've looked at the qt layman overlay and actually built dev-qt/qtwebkit-4.9999 (builds from git), but I was surprised to see that it produces the same libQtWebKit.so.4.9.4 as the stock dev-qt/qtwebkit-4.8.6-r1 ebuild. I thought I would have been picking up some bleeding edge :4 library...
Anyway I'd like to learn if there is some way I can build a more updated dev-qt/qt*:4
Then academically I'm wondering if there is some guidance on the roadmap for managing the revisions & packaging of the dev-qt libraries in portage. |
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yngwin Retired Dev


Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 4572 Location: Suzhou, China
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 10:40 am Post subject: |
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We ship the latest official releases from upstream Qt. libQtWebKit.so.4.9.4 is the latest version included in a release of Qt4.
I think libQtWebKit.so.4.10.2 might be from QtWebKit-2.3, which is independently packaged. We have a provisional dev-qt/qtwebkit23 ebuild in the qt overlay. _________________ "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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rburcham Apprentice

Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 223
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks yngwin, I'll investigate that package.
EDIT - that did the trick. There are collisions that must be managed (bypassed) with the dev-qt/qtwebkit and dev-qt/qtdeclarative packages, but so far so good. |
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VoidMage Watchman


Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6194
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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yngwin, on a not quite related note: recently I've read quite a few unflattering opinions about QtWebEngine, mostly wrt. bundling.
How will this be handled in Gentoo ? |
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yngwin Retired Dev


Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 4572 Location: Suzhou, China
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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VoidMage wrote: | yngwin, on a not quite related note: recently I've read quite a few unflattering opinions about QtWebEngine, mostly wrt. bundling.
How will this be handled in Gentoo ? |
I haven't really looked into this yet, but we have a policy to remove bundled libs as much as possible. _________________ "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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kensington Developer

Joined: 02 Jan 2013 Posts: 177 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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I hope to move qtwebkit23 to the main tree soon for wider testing. Progress is being tracked in bug #388207. |
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VoidMage Watchman


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Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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well, AFAIU, QtWebEngine is pretty much chromium and as much as I don't use that browser, I've still managed to to notice quite a few long term bugs in bugzilla about it (that is unless the maintainers already decided to wave the white flag). |
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