Hi,
probably most of you have wondered if the development of QLandkarte GT has come
to an end as the
release cycles lengthened. Well for QLandkarte GT there will be no big
development anymore. It is kind of
pretty complete.
And, more important, my new ideas do not fit into the internal structure of
QLandkarte GT anymore. You
can change the concepts of a software one ore two times, by simply adding a
second way to do things.
This will mess up the code and at a certain point new ideas will not fit
anymore. This has happened to
QLandkarte GT.
That is why I started from scratch. And it's not just copying code (ok I copied
a lot of code, too) it's a
complete new way to do things. Starting with a new repository host. I never was
happy with Sourceforge. It
was good because it was for free and there where not many alternative services.
That's much better today.
I choose BitBucket as service and Mercurial as repository. A big relief.
https://bitbucket.org/maproom/maproom/wiki/Home
Right now MapRoom is not really usable for a normal user. The only thing it
does is rendering maps. But
that is, compared to QLandkarte, a big step into another direction. With
MapRoom you can display several
maps of different projection and scale in one workspace. And speaking of
workspace: you can have several
ones. I took the experience from users failing to cope with QLandkarte's way of
handling maps and
simplified everything as much as possible. If you are interested have a look
into the documentation:
https://bitbucket.org/maproom/maproom/wiki/DocMain
The difference is not only in what you see on your desktop. I also started with
a new concept to structure
the code. There are several sub-folders in the source path now. The sub-folders
contain functional units.
Thus knowing the functional unit you want to work on you automatically see just
a subset of files important
to that unit. That is much better than the current huge, flat source tree of
QLandkarte GT.
I also decided to use my own icons. I am not much of an artist, thus icons look
all bad now. But at least that
appearance is unified. And as every icon is automatically generated from a SVG
file it should be fairly easy
for a real artist to get involved.
With that we are arriving at the "get involved" section. I think this is a very
good moment to actively join the
project. Open positions are:
* Icon artist
* Documentation writer (documenting new features, fixing my bad English)
* Translators (still have to add localization)
* Developers
Especially for developers I am adding "tasks" to the issue tracker
https://bitbucket.org/maproom/maproom/issues?status=new&status=open
It would be a huge help if someone takes care of these tasks. I took care that
there is no need to
understand the complete code. That makes it easy to start. And you do not have
to fight with half baked
concepts on the first run. You can start right from the beginning with new
code. If you are interested give
me a short notice and I will give you a detailed briefing.
I hope I could attract you curiosity. Right now you have to compile the code on
your own. Nevertheless I
would be happy if you use it and give feedback.
Have fun!
Oliver
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