Re: What happened to gb.qt5.webview?

[Lee <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/6/25 8:41 AM, Laurent Carlier wrote:
> Le samedi 4 octobre 2025, 15:29:00 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Lee a écrit :
> > When revisiting an older application and upon opening it in the IDE, I was
> > informed that gb.qt5.webview component was not available.
> >
> > Indeed, I find no gb.qt5.webview component installed. A `pacman` query of
> > the local package database also shows no gb.qt6.webview component
> > installed; yet /usr/lib/gambas3/gb.qt6.webview.component (with a date of
> > Sep. 6) exists along with its related library files and symbolic links.
> >
> > And, neither 'gambas3-gb-qt5-webview' nor 'gambas3-gb-qt6-webview' are
> > available from the 'extra' repo.
> >
> > What am I missing about this?
> >
> >
> > [Gambas 3.20.4]
>
> I'm the maintainer for the Archlinux package.
>
> Webview component is not available anymore with qt5, because qt5 webengine
> package will be removed sooner or later from the repository.
>
>  From the qt5 webengine maintainer, webengine is not maintained upstream
> anymore, and is vulnerable. We have a qt6 component now, and should be
> prefered over qt5 one.
>
> I don't think current kde rely on qt5 ? you should prefer gui component for an
> automatic component selection.
>
> Regards,
> Laurent Carlier

Thank you, Laurent.

I figured that perhaps the qt5 components were being phased out in favor of qt6. But, that doesn't explain why 
gambas3-gb-qt6-webview is not available in the repo.

And, no, KDE does not rely on Qt5; it defaults to Qt6. In that older project, I had to use qt5 as there were issues with the qt6 
component at the time.


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Lee

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