Greetings! How was the Summer of Code QtSharp project gone, Dimitar and Joao? Is the period ended or still ongoing?
Where would you say we are now sitting in terms of being able to start of a revival of Mono for Sailfish or .NET Core for Sailfish and the Qt binding to go with that? Perhaps somebody could also educate me on QtWidgets Vs QtQuick, and on differences in approach of Qt use in KDE, Plasma, Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish? Any other platforms we need to consider? Also, if somebody could confirm that there is nothing hidden in Silica, and that it will be physically possible to bind, that would be great. Also, if somebody could make a definitive statement on the current licensing status of Silica, that would be much appreciated. Maybe with the company split, there will be more appetite for starting to talk about paths to open sourcing of Silica again? Is Silica the ONLY non-open-sourced part of Sailfish? Alien Dalvik is obviously commercial, but isn't really part of Sailfish per se, right? It is just something which was bundled with the Jolla Phone. Is it bundled with the Tablet too? On Jun 20, 2015 2:54 AM, "Giuliettasw" <users.giulie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Qtquick 2.0 is to be preferred over qtwidgets starting qt 5.0 btw. > Iirc qtwidgets support on sfos is limited? > > Besz, > tortoisedoc > > Von meinem iPad gesendet > > Am 18.06.2015 um 14:20 schrieb Dimitar Dobrev <dpldob...@yahoo.com>: > > > Hi all, > > Bob, GSoC is over at the end of August. However, I think that some > demos will be able to be built at least a month earlier. The reason is that > we only need complete support for dependencies. I have already completed > the mechanism itself, what I need to do now is fix 5 or 6 bugs revealed by > the first dependent module - QtGui. Once that's done, I'll have only > QtWidgets to wrap which means that Qt# will be ready for building visual > examples. > > Regards, > Dimitar > > > > On Thursday, June 18, 2015 10:23 AM, Bob Summerwill <b...@summerwill.net> > wrote: > > > >> In this context a bind of Xamarin.Form could be really interesting to > catch developers attentions > >> and allow for easy app port for the many that are using that technology > (and this day seems a lot). > >> Michele > > I asked Xamarin about that last year. Whether there was an opportunity > for me to build Xamarin.Forms support for Tizen/Sailfish with their > help/co-operation. The answer was no. > > Xamarin.Forms is a pure commercial offering from Xamarin, which is built > on top of Mono, which is open-sourced on some platforms and closed on > others (iOS and Android). > > Getting a Xamarin.Forms for Tizen/Sailfish would not be binding project. > It would be a reverse-engineering product. End-users would need to > include some core assemblies in their application which they could only > obtain if there were a Xamarin paying customer. And for the > Sailfish-specific Xamarin.Form bindings we would need to reverse-engineer > how the platform-specific assemblies for Xamarin.Forms are built, and then > make one for Sailfish. > > So while this is technically possible, it is not something which Xamarin > would support and it is something they would actively fight in all > likelyhood. And it might be a lot of work. > > As you say, though, it would be damn sweet! Shared XAML for Windows > Phone, Surface, PC, XBOX360, iOS, Android and Sailfish would be cool. > > > Cheers, > Bob > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Michele Tameni <mich...@tameni.it> wrote: > > In this context a bind of Xamarin.Form could be really interesting to > catch developers attentions and allow for easy app port for the many that > are using that technology (and this day seems a lot). > Michele > > 2015-06-18 8:42 GMT+02:00 Bob Summerwill <b...@summerwill.net>: > > Greetings! > > Last year the Mono for Sailfish project was announced, development started > and then withered and silently died. That was mainly due to reasons > related to my own personal situation (I lost a job and had to focus on > job-hunting, not Kitsilano Software, etc) rather than any lack of technical > merit of the project. > > http://monoforsailfish.com > > http://www.mobilelinuxnews.com/2014/08/introduction-mono-sailfish-os-jolla/ > > Anyway. It is a new year, and circumstances have changed. After several > months in the doldrums, the winds have changed in our favor again, sailors! > > 1. Microsoft have open sourced .NET in a major way, and are supporting it > on Linux and Mac OSX. They announced that last November and in April of > this year they made the first preview releases for OSX and Linux. See > http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-releases-net-core-preview-for-mac-and-linux/. > The did the most amazing .NET Core demo "trick" during //BUILD, which was > creating an ASP.NET <http://asp.net/> 5 web app (ASP.NET5 is open-sourced > too) in Visual Studio on a Windows PC, deploying that app into a Linux > Docker container (so .NET Core assemblies on Linux with the ASP.NET5 > assemblies on top of that) and then running that app and hitting a > breakpoint and single-stepping through the app). So debugging a .NET app > running inside a container, running on a different OS. Kind of cool. > .NET Core is going to be an even better base for getting .NET onto mobile > Linux than Mono was, because it has the full weight of Microsoft support > behind it. They want that .NET platform available for Linux to support > ASP.NET <http://asp.net/> apps inside Azure. Mono on Linux wasn't > supporting any business for Xamarin, so was a little unloved. Their focus > is on Android and iOS. > > Aside - Microsoft also released this - > http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingVisualStudioCodeForWindowsMacAndLinux.aspx > . > > 2. QtSharp (https://github.com/ddobrev/QtSharp), the project on whose > completion Mono for Sailfish was dependent, has got funding as part of the > Google Summer of Code, so will be brought to functional completeness on > Windows, OSX and Linux this year. That is fantastic, because I was > personally bankrolling that non-Sailfish-specific work as part of Mono for > Sailfish. It moved along for a couple of months under Mono for Sailfish, > but it was apparent that there was a lot of work more work to be done to > get to that 1.0 version. But that will now be moving ahead independently > of Mono for Sailfish, which is great to see. Dimitar Dobrev is the > developer. Hi, Dimitar, and congratulations on securing funding from GSOC! > > Deliverables: Improve the QT bindings generator to the point that they > can be used for a non-trivial QT sample written in idiomatic C#. > > > https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2015/ddobrev/5741031244955648 > > https://trello.com/c/b34YKGIi/57-cppsharp-continue-mono-net-bindings-for-qt > > When the QtSharp GSOC project is over (when is that, Dimitar?) and we have > a non-trivial Qt sample written in idiomatic C# working on Windows, OSX and > Linux, I think we are in a position to look at rebooting this project, > though it would be .NET Core for Sailfish now, not Mono for Sailfish. > > This new project would have much of the same flavor as the last one, but > have a smaller scope of effort required to get to a 1.0 release: > > 1. Get .NET Core runtime for Linux working on Sailfish (should be similar > scope to the work which Damien Diederen did for MonoTizen). See > http://monotizen.com. > > 2. Build MonoDevelop plugin for Sailfish (should be similar scope to the > work which Damien Diederen did for MonoTizen). See http://monotizen.com. > > 3. Build wrappers for Sailfish-specific Qt/QML components, so that apps of > similar complexity to the deliverable of the GSOC project can be built on > Sailfish. > > > With regard to this third point, is there a Wiki page or other posting > detailing the latest state of licensing for Silica? Has that moved at all > since last year? Are more QML components being open-sourced? And just > to be clear, there is no "source code hiding" going on with Silica, right? > It is just that certain files are not under an open source license? > Nothing that would hinder this binding work, eh? > > > Cheers, > Bob Summerwill > Kitsilano Software > (http://bobsummerwill.wordpress.com/about) > > > -- > b...@summerwill.net > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org > > > > > -- > michele tameni > > > > > -- > b...@summerwill.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >
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