Hello again! I got the following reply on your comments for the libqt4intf interface library from Den Jean, a Qt4-Intf developer:
-------- Original Message -------- From: Den Jean <den.j...@telenet.be> To: Items specific to the Qt widget set <q...@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org> On Sunday 8 November 2009 17:22:36 Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Off-topic but still: yes, SMOKE does work on those platforms. was not the case when the pascal binding was created. > It'd be nice if these bindings were generated by SMOKE because that > would make its maintenance easier both for upstream and for you. big ? mark > SMOKE does a very good job, you need to have written a binding to understand why so few bindings used smoke at that time > it's faster than the official bindings fast enough for a scripting language, it would be sad for a fast static language like FPC. > Nokia is providing (QtScript, PySide). Take a look at > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/89 (and > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4079 in particular). > > So, why do we not use SMOKE? Den, where are you? :-P Why did PyQt, PySide,QtJambi, QtAda,QtC,QtScript .. etc not use smoke ? I have seen many Qt bindings come and go. PerlQt3 used smoke, why was it that years after the Qt4.0 release there was no PerlQt4 :-) But a Pascal Smoke Qt 4 binding would be complementary, though my binding fulfills its goals, a smoke binding would be way more complete. I am looking forward to see your results (and comment on the quality ;-) ) Understand that the other bindings try to provide a GUI library to their language, whilst Lazarus already has one. Providing Lazarus with a Qt backend (widgetset) is something entirely different. regards, Den Jean --------------------- So I don't see any blocks for this package. It is also impossible that all Pascal developer switch to new SMOKE bindings within a week. I still wait for a comment on the moc-files and the build-script issue. Maybe this can be fixed for the Debian packaging. Regards Matthias Klumpp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
