On 2020/06/14 23:16, Rafael Sadowski wrote:
> On Sun Jun 14, 2020 at 09:51:57PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2020/06/14 09:40, Andrea Fleckenstein wrote:
> > > Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> 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?

oh, yes :)



> > 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.
> > 
> 

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