# from Jonathan Yu
# on Monday 25 May 2009:
>I'd like to remove the Qt module from CPAN, or be able to take it
> over.
Hi Jonathan,
That's a good question in general, but for Qt4, I'm inclined to say that
a better approach would be to use the 'Qt4::' namespace.
>I'm working with someone else on perlqt4 bindings for my Google Summer
>of Code project, and the currently available version of Qt is from
>1997 and of little use to anybody. (See: code.google.com/p/perlqt4)
>
>We'd like to be able to push the module through CPAN once we're done.
>In order to do that, we need to remove the existing version and
>register the namespace to one of us.
>
>I think the top-level namespace is appropriate since that's exactly
>what other packages (ie, Wx) do.
From my tinkering with it thus-far, it appears that Qt3 and Qt4 are
quite different APIs. That is, current Perl code written for Qt (3)
won't "just work", right?
If it breaks existing code (even if it's a few years old), it's rather
severe to replace a distribution.
Thus, if it's technically feasible (and doesn't make the API horrid),
adding a '4' to the package name seems reasonable. I will be glad to
help with this as time allows.
--Eric
--
Like a lot of people, I was mathematically abused as a child.
--Paul Graham
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