Chromium (& derivatives) and Python 2.7

[Adriaan de Groot]

The Chromium build system -- and as a consequence, also QtWebEngine -- still 
uses Python 2.7. This is going to be a real problem about six months down the 
line, and I have no idea how upstream is going to deal with it. I've heard 
there are patches buried deep within the chocolate factory, but not from 
reliable sources.

QtWebEngine is an even specialer case, since it's an LTS and also the last LTS 
in the Qt5 series, and I have real doubts about upstream -- The Qt Company -- 
being able or willing to deal with Python 2.7 deprecation there.

Has anyone in FreeBSD tried to port the stuff over? I got about an hour or two 
into the porting process (making configure accept Python 3 is easy, but 
there's all these wretched code-generating scripts) and hit a brick wall of 
templating engines doing sensible Python 2.7 things.

[ade]
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