Re: What happened to gb.qt5.webview?

[Laurent Carlier <lordheavym@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le lundi 6 octobre 2025, 15:14:57 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Lee a écrit :
> 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.
> 

You are right, qt6-webview should be on its own package, it's a mistake on my 
side, and i will fix this soon. Currently, it's a part of gb-qt6 package as 
qt5-webview was a part of gb-qt5 one.

> 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.

So if you really need webview component for qt5, just install package set from 
openbuild, but it's a temporary solution.

Regards,
Laurent Carlier

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