On Sun Jun 14, 2020 at 09:51:57PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2020/06/14 09:40, Andrea Fleckenstein wrote:
> > Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> writes:
> >
> > > The port was stuck due to not having qtwebengine which is needed
> > > for newer versions.
> > >
> > > There is a big enough change in build layout for the newer version
> > > that the current port isn't a good basis, so OK sthen@ to remove it.
> >
> > I'm keen to start work on the update. Anyone else been working on it?
> > Will the old port really be no use at all that I should just start from
> > scratch?
>
> I had a look at it a few times in the past, before we had qtwebengine (trying
> to switch it back to qtwebkit) but didn't get anywhere with that approach.
> Compared to the existing port, the files are in a different location,
> the dependencies are different with the move to qt5, and the file layout
> is different enough that the install target wasn't usable. There's not
> much else left to the existing port.
>
> I wasn't really interested enough in it to pick it up again. And, like
> Calibre, upstream's advice to users to avoid OS packages isn't really
> encouraging. If you or someone else want to pick it up, thr first thing
> it will need is pyqtwebengine to be ported.
>
Do you mean www/py-qtwebengine?
>
> Then I would suggest looking
> for the last Anki version before they added the Rust bits so there is
> less to deal with all at once.
>
