Hi, from what I understood, you are searching for a replacement (or even a proper solution) for these functionalities: 1) platform independent networking 2) a test framework 3) a platform independent build system 4) a graphical framework 5) misc. utility classes (which ones ?)
I think, there are a couple of advantages with Qt. * Qt is a really great GUI framework. Especially Qt5 has evolved to a very good framework IMHO. * portability is greatly eased. In future, we could also easily provide an Android or IOS crossfire client. * You seem to have some experience with Qt with CRE. * The crossfire code would have to be converted to be C++ (at least compilable). However, it really depends where the Crossfire project is heading towards. My concerns are these (hence, I'm asking so many questions): * Qt is actually quite big (on my system libQt5Core is 5MB large - stripped!). I have always liked the light-weight nature of crossfire. * Over the years, the API changes caused some headaches, e.g., from 3 to 4 and from 4 to 5. I don't think it is feasible to support all different versions. * we would (at least in the interim) have to support Qt AND the current GTK+ client. This seems unfortunate as both frameworks have a similar functional scope. Finally, let me again mention that there are alternatives to the above requirements: 1) SDL provides a good networking abstraction (SDLnet) 2) I really like GoogleTest. Other alternatives include Boost::Test and CPPUnit 3) CMake is a great cross-platform build system. Other alternatives include, e.g., scons. 4) Qt is really the best choice here. As mentioned above, I would harmonize all graphical tools, i.e., CRE and the client should be based on the same framework. We could even think about using a Python Qt binding (PyQt or PySide). 5) Depends on which classes you actually need. Opinions ? Best regards Tolga Dalman _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire