Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >>> David Craven <da...@craven.ch> writes: >>> >>>>> What do you think? The alternative is to drop Texmaker and all the >>>>> other packages that depend on Chromium as distributed by Qt. >>>> >>>> Weren't you vocal on IRC about bundling and the hell it brings? Sounds >>>> like bundling is ok when it suits you... :) >>> >>> I have no problems dropping Texmaker. I’m not even using it. >> >> Ouch. I was the one who submitted the package when the Qt modules >> weren't unbundled yet (I guess). Now, because of a change of how we >> package Qt, we're ready to remove a program that used to work just >> fine..? >> >> What's next? Throw the calibre package out of the window too because >> it's broken for GNU Guix users? > > Today I don’t seem to be communicating effectively. What I meant was > that *personally* I have no interest in this software, which should be > sufficient to defuse the insinuation that I think “bundling is ok when > it suits [me]” (a remark I consider needlessly inflammatory, despite the > emoticon). > > Obviously, I haven’t removed Texmaker — that would have been a simpler > fix to a broken build than what I actually did: investigating the issue, > packaging up more Qt modules, looking into the sources of qtwebengine, > and discussing what to do on the mailing list. > > All I’m saying is that we must do *something* because right now the > situation is just as if we had dropped Texmaker: it cannot be built, > neither on Hydra nor on individual people’s machines. And it won’t be > buildable unless someone does the work. Hence my email. > > I feel I’ve spent too much time of my Saturday on this already. I’m not > very motivated to continue working on this.
Right. I'm looking into it. It seems that Texmaker wants "Webkitwidgets", which are unsupported since version 5.6: >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 we should be able to compile it separately as described here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/qtwebkit5.html This only makes me wonder whether this is at all secure. I will try to add a separate qt-webkit(widgets) package and see if that solves the build problems for Texmaker. Kind regards, Roel Janssen
