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kovidgoyal · 01-28-2016, 10:46 AM

As far as I know, most distros are going to keep on producing Qt WebKit packages for the lifetime of Qt 5.x -- there are way too many applications that depend on it for them not to do so, and I have seen positive statements to that effect from the maintainers of a couple of distros.

EDIT: And yeah, producing robust cross distro binaries on linux is a major PITA -- the linux distro situation in general is a major PITA.

01-28-2016, 10:46 AM	#9
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,439 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	As far as I know, most distros are going to keep on producing Qt WebKit packages for the lifetime of Qt 5.x -- there are way too many applications that depend on it for them not to do so, and I have seen positive statements to that effect from the maintainers of a couple of distros. EDIT: And yeah, producing robust cross distro binaries on linux is a major PITA -- the linux distro situation in general is a major PITA.