How about some help to build and maintain Bat?
On 10/08/2017 05:55 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On 10/08/17 08:44, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Carsten,
Thanks for the heads up.
On 14/09/2017 13:28, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:
Hi,
QT4 is out of support since December 2015[1]. The QT maintainers in Debian
plan to not ship it in the next Debian release[2] (which will probably be
in 2019). It has to be assumed that other distributions will take the
same step in the near future.
Are there plans to update bat to use QT5? A list of API changes
can be found here[3].
Yes there are plans to update to Qt 5, but sometimes with such nice web
interfaces (BWeb, Baculum, ...) I wonder whether it is really worth the
effort.
The principal problem with the web interfaces, from my personal point of
view, is primarily that they require PHP. (I, and many others, refuse
to run PHP because it has historically been such a tremendous security
hole. In roughly half of all customer server compromises that my
employer has to clean up and remediate, the attack vector is PHP.)
A secondary factor is that honestly, I have never been a fan of the
"everything is a web application" model. In functional use terms, this
is largely because we have to choose between web browsers which do *not*
isolate each web application in its own thread or process, and which
stop responding altogether if a single application or even a single
*script* running in them becomes temporarily unresponsive or crashes; or
browsers which *do* isolate web applications in their own threads or
processes - which at present pretty much means Chrome, which is a memory
and resource hog. Choose your poison.
I much prefer to have a separate standalone application such as BAT as
my GUI console, even if it perhaps isn't as pretty as Baculum, and I
would be sad if it were to go away. It has aged well, works well, and
has no significant bugs aside from a few already-reported issues
involving multiple redundant notification dialogs.
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