[haiku-development] Re: GSoC 2015 ideas list
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:14:04 +0100
On 01/20/2015 03:47 PM, Augustin Cavalier wrote:
On 1/20/2015 3:27 AM, Adrien Destugues wrote:
* "Evaluate Qt as a potential Haiku R2 API" -- besides the fact that
the Qt 5 port is being upstreamed as we speak (that's one of the things
on this task list) I haven't heard from any Haiku developers who want
this. (I don't.)
I do. Large parts of the BeOS/Haiku API suck, are horribly incomplete,
or could use some dusting off e.g. wrt. newer C++ standards. Looking at
the progress of our project in the past, it should be clear that we
simply don't have the man power to do that. Therefore evaluating
alternatives is a very sensible thing to do.
And please do not confuse an evaluation of this option with any kind of
decision on the topic. Even if the project is successful and using Qt
results in a smooth user and developer experience, we can still decide
to take another route. Other alternatives -- even other languages -- can
be explored as well.
At the very least, it should get a more formal
discussion/vote on the ML before we have a GSoC student spend an entire
summer on it.
There has been some discussion in the past (the idea is not new at all),
but feel free to start a new one. I don't see why we would need a formal
vote for a project idea, though. In fact our GSoC isn't so much about
the particular project -- we have accepted projects with little to no
immediate benefit to Haiku in the past -- it's about getting students
interested in Haiku. A project the student is interested in and a mentor
is motivated to supervise is just the means to this end.
CU, Ingo
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