Re: state of QT6 and plans?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost> writes:

> On 05/11/2025 06:22, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> I see in pkgsrc a number of qt6 packages.  There is a meta package, but
>> the DESCR doesn't lead me to understand if qgis should just depend on
>> the qt6 metapackage or on the list of things it really needs.  I'm
>> thinking the list, as surely much of it isn't necessary.
>
> I would say the list of things it really needs.

Is the metapackage there 
  - to test building qt6 (but not everythign that depends on it)?
  - for people building source code (not in pkgsrc) that wants qt6?
  - convenience for people maintaining qt6 in pkgsrc?
  - some oether reason?

>>      wip/py-qt6-webengine
>>      wip/qt6-qtwebengine
>
> wip/qt6-qtwebengine should be committed to www/qt6-qtwebengine very
> shortly and I presume py-qt6-webengine will follow quite quickly.

Sounds good.  I wonder if the repo it is using will have changes pushed
upstream so we can get back on the regular path, or if I'm misreading.

> Once that is done I intend to update all the KDE Gear packages to the
> 25.08.2 version, which in most cases are QT6 based.  I've built about
> 2/3 of them so far (currently stuck on akonadi for most of the rest).

I have just succeeded in the configure stage of qgis 3.99, disabling
webengine use for now, and am building.  This is going better than I
expected it would -- thanks to you and others for all the qt6 work so
far.

I will have to figure out the right pkgsrc dependencies; right now I'm
just installing packages as cmake objects, and build dep vs run dep
might be tricky.  But that's not about the state of our qt6 support.