RE: [Oscar-devel] Qt or not Qt

[Bernard Li]

Title: Re: [Oscar-devel] Qt or not Qt

I agree that we should pick one package and stick with it, however, we need to consider the following points:

 

1) The portability of the package we choose - we need to think ahead - does this package work well with MacOSX?  Solaris?  BSD?

 

2) The maintainability of the package - do all major distributions support this package?  Is it being phased out so distributions will start dropping it?

 

3) The consistency of the package across different platforms - it is going to produce a consistent GUI on multiple platforms?  I find that I am having some issues with the OPD GUI on FC2, but others don't seem to have this problem on other systems.

 

4) The expertise/preference of the people maintaining the GUI code - who is maintaing the code?  Seems like it is David and Fernando?  Anybody else?

 

Just my $0.02.

 

Cheers,

 

Bernard

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David N. Lombard
Sent: Thu 24/02/2005 8:43 PM
To: Thomas Naughton
Cc: Lombard, David N; Oscar-devel List
Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] Qt or not Qt

Thomas Naughton wrote:
> ...  Well, one windowing
> package would be easier to maintain than two, which ever we choose. ;)

That's the whole point.  We have a bunch of incomplete Qt bits, two
functioning Qt apps, and the rest, that is well tested and now much
improved, is Tk.

I'd be arguing for Qt if it was the other way round.

Work was done on a Qt replacement because that's what the people doing
the work wanted to do.  At this point, we have some unknown amount of
work to get this new stuff going at all, let alone to the reliability
the current code has.  Finally, no matter what, all the SIS bits are Tk
and going to stay that way.

At the end of the day, the only way to get to a single gui toolkit is to
drop Qt.

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