[haiku-development] Re: QT for R2

Hi Andrew,

Am 19.03.2012 01:54, schrieb Andrew Wood:

On 19/03/12 00:44, Joseph Groover wrote:

As far as I'm aware we are talking about a quality port of QT so we
can get our hands on some quality applications and not remain 10+
years behind. I do not believe anyone is planning to use QT in place
of native code.


According to the 'official' announcement its to investigate the
feasability of replacing partly or completely the Be API with QT
What official announcement? There was only some consense about a possible GSoC project idea. That doesn't mean it's going to happen.
The term "official" is frequently used with the wrong ideas of what it means. This is an open project. There was just a public discussion in which one significant contributor made the proposal and provided his reasoning, another significant contributor was against the idea.
Look, the feelings of Haiku followers are certainly of concern for the project, at least IMHO. But reasoning with facts should also carry a lot of weight in a discussion, don't you think? As such I followed the contributions to the discussion from those intimitely familiar with both the Be API, Haiku's own new stuff and Qt, with great interest. The proposal to use Qt as a replacement API comes from a guy who either implemented large chunks of the Be APIs or even wrote new Haiku APIs. He has a significant investment in the current code base. 

Best regards,
-Stephan

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