Am Mittwoch 09 Dezember 2009 13:14:35 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Stefan Rödiger wrote: > > I read about QtScript in another thread and I wonder when it will be > > useable (or for testing). I'm looking forward to this. > > sorry that it took me this long to reply (and even longer since announcing > I would write about this, "real soon now").
No problem here. > I still haven't written up > everything, properly, but now, finally, here's some documentation on the > current status, and what still needs to be done: > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Converting_Plu > gins_from_PHP_to_JS . Great, I hope to get some things done over x-mas. > The most important things in short: > > 1) The basic QtScript backend is in place, and in fact, if you've used a > plotting plugin, recently, you will have used it: The plot_options-plugin > is already converted to QtScript. Seems I did without knowing (BWT, it worked ;) ). > > 2) So far, the QtScript backend can serve as a replacement of the PHP > backend (see below), but no more than that. All the additional GUI > scripting features that I've mentioned before just aren't there, yet, and > it may take considerable time, before they are. So, the - somewhat boring > - task at hand is merely to obsolete the PHP backend, completely. Adding > and using good new stuff comes later. Sound more than reasonable to me. > > 3) All .php-files need conversion. Luckily much of that work has already > been done by a script (rkward/plugins/php2js.js, if you're curious). > However, that script just isn't perfect, and each and every plugin will > need to be checked by hand. See > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Converting_Plu > gins_from_PHP_to_JS#QtScript for details. Okay. > > 4) The plan for the next steps is this: > 4a) If you have written a plugin, and you have any time at all, ATM, do an > svn up > Pick *one* (or two) of your plugins, and convert it according to the steps > detailed in the wiki (ask, if you need help). Okay, I will try to do this soonish. There was nothing new in the making but I plan some improvements e.g. for the boxplot plugin. > Please try to get this done a week from now, or let us know, if you need > more time. I know this is rather short notice, but I hope to get 4b going > before the end-of-year weeks. Hups, this will be hard since I have a paper to write and some students (more than usual) to take care of. But lets see. > > 4b) If you have fundamental objections, raise them right after 4a. If you > think some details could be improved, write about that as soon as possible, > as well. This will be the last chance to discuss matters that might mean > changing something for all JS-files / plugins. If you haven't raised your > voice before the end of the year, expect to be told "it's too late for > that". (If you want an extension of the deadline, speak up, now). There are no objections just some work that needs to be done. > > 4c) After that, we need to convert all the plugins, one by one. For most > plugins, this should be a matter of (few) minutes, but overall, it will > take time. I'd like to finish this before February, at the latest. > Okay. Close shedule but let's work on it. > Regards > Thomas > Regards Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list RKWard-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel