On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:23:27PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:42:23PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > They seemingly learned a lesson or two. Qt 4 is conceptionally much > > cleaner than Qt 3 and older. > > That's encouraging to hear, I suppose.
The price is that you basically re-do everything. Ourr current internal estimate at work is that porting some moderately complex gui from Qt 3 to 4 takes about 30-60% of the orginal effort of porting Motif/MFC to Qt 3. > I don't get it. We need MVC no matter what, as I think you agree. Sure. > I do not find Angus's code[1] to be difficult or even particularly > time-consuming compared to the time spent on actual UI design or > integration with the core. Have you seen the typical controller > recently? Not recently, which might be the core of my 'problem'. > ControlBranch.C (for example) is pretty trivial, [To a degree that make one wonder whether it is explicitly needed at all ... but you are right.] Andre'
