workbench Does Qwt finding work?

After installing qwt-qt*-devel files on Fedora, running cmake still shows:

    Qwt:      In Workbench Source Code

My understanding is that Qwt is not distributed with CMake packaging files, so it needs a custom finder. I'm guessing this, like QuaZip, may have been an aspirational inclusion, but I wanted to check. Is it already found in some circumstances? If not, is there interest in getting it to work?

Mar 10 '25 12:03 effigies

@yarikoptic

Yes, this was probably also aspirational, the debian build log says Qwt is using the bundled code. From the workbench side, I don't know that we care much, but debian packaging policy seems to prefer to build against system versions when available. The ideal solution to doing that would be for Qwt upstream to provide CMake files.

Mar 10 '25 20:03 coalsont

Looks like there's a long-standing request: https://sourceforge.net/p/qwt/feature-requests/95/

There are several forks that patch it in, and one patch submitted, but none have been merged.

Mar 11 '25 12:03 effigies