On Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:07:20 PDT Bastiaan Veelo wrote: > > at this point, what's speaking againt qtwebkit is its track record of > > release. Until it starts making regular releases again, I can't recommend > > it. And Qt Creator (or any other application) shouldn't begin using it > > again until those regular releases resume. > > Are you worried about the lack of security patches? I can see how that > matters for an ordinary browser implemented with Qt, but for Assistant > and Creator that exclusively display locally installed generated > compressed help files, security concerns are a lot lower.
Sure, but the fact that Qt Creator is using it could lead people to trying for a web browser. Not to mention that even if Qt's help documents are safe, other documents you may want to view may not be so. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
