Hi, Urs - On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 3:47 AM Urs Liska <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ubuntu 16.04 is a LTS release with (IIRC) five years of support. So it > is not unreasonable for someone to use it. However, we (Frescobaldi) > seem to have been hit by this five-year term since we're dealing with a > change in the Qt framework that has phased out support for a module over > (again, IIRC) 2-3 years. So all *current* Linux distributions ship with > a Qt version that only includes QtWebEngine and not QtWebKit anymore. > There has been a range of Qt versions including both. > > The question is whether a project like Frescobaldi can reasonably be > expected to actively support such an old OS, even if it's LTS. I'd > assume that lTS guarantees you security patches but not that every new > software will run. > > Before upgrading to a newer OS it might be an option to use a current > Qt/PyQt downloaded or compiled from somewhere. @Simon you could do us a > huge favor by exploring that possibility and providing information about > it for the Wiki. > In addition it would be good to have a list of distributions that > include the "new" module, both modules, or only the "old" modules (i.e. > won't work with Frescobaldi 3.1). > > Urs > As I've said before, I'm a novice at command line Linux, but I'm attaching a screenshot of my command line search (locate) for QtWebEngine and QtWebKit. I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. Hope this helps, Ralph -- Ralph Palmer Brattleboro, VT USA (he, him, his) [email protected]
