[haiku-development] Re: QT for R2
- From: Isak Andersson <IcePapih@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:24:26 +0100
"Stephan Aßmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx> skrev:
>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.
>
I'm not sure why we should be so concerned about this. Of course QT shouldn't
replace the Be API. Look at all the Linux crap that supports QT while still
having GTK as their "official" API. Doing something like that would be nothing
but good for Haiku as we'd get access to a whole bunch of great applications
that we wouldn't have otherwise. One of the reasons that I don't use Haiku full
time even though it is ny favourite Operating System, is the lack of things to
do on it.
It doesn't even have to come with Haiku by default. Let's say you can install
the libQT-dev or just the runtime from whatever package manager is being made.
That would make a lot of sense to me.
Cheers,
Isak
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