[MacPorts] #57536: suggestion: split off qt5-qtwebengine to a standalone port

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Wed Nov 7 15:19:57 UTC 2018


#57536: suggestion: split off qt5-qtwebengine to a standalone port
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 Reporter:  RJVB         |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
Component:  ports        |    Version:
 Keywords:               |       Port:  t5-qtwebengine
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 I just learned that the Qt devs are

 > trying to support though is building a newer qtwebengine.git against
 older Qt versions (usually last LTS).
 > [...]
 > But you can build qtwebengine 5.11 branch against Qt 5.9.

 I haven't checked if QWE 5.11 also builds on all Mac OS versions where Qt
 5.9 builds, but apart from that this is a pretty good reason to split off
 the QWE subport and make it standalone. That way users can benefit from
 the latest and thus most secure QWE.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/57536>
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