Re: Life after Opie 1.2.0

On Wednesday 13 April 2005 14:59, Lorn Potter wrote:
[snip]
>  d) merging qtopia 2.1.x changes, and getting back to a compatible
> drop-in/stand-in/addition-to for qtopia and qtopia devices. Merging Qtopia
> 4 changes when they are released, saving us (opie developers) a lot of
> headaches in the meantime.
>
> Why you ask? Because we do not have the developer resources to start from
> scratch. Why not harness Trolltech's developers to maintain those base
> libraries, etc? Opie can then be an extension of that. How about porting to
> qt/e4? Do you want to do that entirely yourself? It isn't going to be easy.
> I see first hand the struggles of porting Qtopia to qte/4. The changes are
> numerable and it can be frustrating.

This is a valid option to me.

You have a very good point about the Opie project having enough resources to 
start from scratch.  However, I do not believe we have been/will be creating 
our own functionality and core libraries simply for the sake of 'Opie is not 
Qtopia'.  Everything we have done to date has been for a specific technical 
reason or for a feature we have felt is needed, but not part of Qtopia.

I know that TrollTech has its own goals and requirements (based on client 
needs) for the environment, and to me it does not matter one bit that those 
goals are commercial.  Opie has its own goals as well, and I think we 
developers need to decide if our goals overlap with TrollTech's or not.  It 
is not a personal matter of one being right and the other wrong, just if the 
2 groups are moving in the same direction or not.

Also in regards to porting Opie to qte/4, even if we decide to utilize qte/4 
and Qtopia as a basis for the next generation Opie, we will still need to 
convert all of our existing apps (many of which the original authors have 
long since moved on...).  So in either case, we have a lot of work before 
us. :)

Dan
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