[Slackbuilds-users] qt5 is sorely in need of an update

[David Woodfall]

On Monday 4 June 2018 19:23,
David O'Shaughnessy <lists at osh.id.au> put forth the proposition:
> On 06/04/2018 07:15 PM, Harald Achitz wrote:
> > If it doesn’t work with 5.9.x than it has a problem and is not worth
> > using it
> >
> > On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 at 06:15, David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net
> > <mailto:dave at dawoodfall.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sunday 3 June 2018 20:05,
> >     Harald Achitz <harald.achitz at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:harald.achitz at gmail.com>> put forth the proposition:
> >     > please do not got to an other developer version (5.10.x, 5.11.x) ,
> >     use a
> >     > LTS version, 5.6.x or, better , 5.9.x
> >
> >     I can see the need for a separate dev version for qutebrowser.
> >
>
> Have to agree with Harald here. The whole ideology of Slackware and SBo
> favours stability/reliability over features, and software that won't
> compile with an active LTS version of Qt5 would seem to be more hassle
> than it's worth.
>
> --
> Dave

qutebrowser works with 5.7.1 as a minimum. However some features of
qtwebengine like URL regex for javascript and cookie control have
only been recently added to qt5.

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