Move to Qt?

[Amit Chaudhuri]

Dirk,

elaborating....at least a little.

I think the guy on the link was trying to say he's had issues with
deployment of Qt apps when using dynamic libraries.  I've certainly found
it a bit painful moving apps from my development environment to others'
machines - especially in a work environment where the IT dept. might have
implemented an opaque policy on permissions in the file system. You need to
ensure you get the right libraries into your packages and if using specific
plugins they may need to be in a very specific place relative to other
components.  If we use KDE/Marble as a map widget, for example, that can be
built as a plugin with all that comes with that.

I don't think this is particularly Qt specific, but it would be a change
and it could raise challenges we've not yet dealt with.  The whole Qt4/5
thing  is probably part of that.  We've already had a "Qt5 please" but how
many Linux distros ship Qt5 today?

A






On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> Amit Chaudhuri <amit.k.chaudhuri at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Dirk & Lubomir - your replies raise points I hadn't thought of and spark
> > some other random thoughts.
> >
> > If Gettext is used for the translations, Qt also has an infrastructure
> for
> > handing the same (Qt Linguistic).  I don't know how they compare from a
> > translators PoV, but note the existence and acknowledge Dirk's link.
>
> I have now heard from a couple of people that suggest staying with
> gettext. Apparently KDE uses gettext on top of Qt as well.
>
> > Subsurface use of pthreads  is pretty limited, unless I'm missing
> > something.  Grep pulled out only one or two lines last time I looked.
> Did I
> > miss a whole bunch of thread usage somewhere?
>
> No, it's very limited. Mostly around downloading from dive computers.
>
> > Someone in that second link makes a very good point about the dependency
> on
> > Qt itself and the impact on distributing the application.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean, can you elaborate?
>
> > If I set my own bias aside, it looks to me as though things are fairly
> > finely balanced in terms of resource and experience on the wider team.
> >  I'll watch Dirk's follow ups with interest.
>
> Here's an interesting post that was pointed out to me. More food for
> thought.
>
> http://blog.mardy.it/2012/05/from-g-to-q.html
>
> /D
>
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