G. Allegri wrote: > Is the Qt Jambi strong enough to give us a promising > future perspective? > > Ok, easy questions for difficult answers... I need just a hint to avoid > investing on something that doesn't fit my skills.
There was a debate on this a few months back when Trolltech announced QtJambi was "being handed over to the community." My opinion was negative at the time, and although others tried hard to be optimistic, they didn't convince me, and I've not seen much positive in the intervening months. QtJambi is just too complex to hand over to the community. It requires in depth understanding of the internals of JVMs, in depth understanding of the internals of Qt, and in depth understanding of the tools that have been created to link everything together. The only people with that much knowledge are the Trolltech guys, and if it's not economical for Nokia to employ them to maintain QtJambi then it's hard to see how anyone else would find a business case to do so. On this list we've already seen examples of problems that people have reported that aren't going to be fixed by Trolltech. No one else knows how to do it, and no one else has stepped up to say they're going to learn. I'd still love someone to prove me wrong, for someone to step forward and say they'll maintain it. Sun are the only people I can see doing that, and given they're about to be swallowed I doubt it'll happen any time soon. In the meantime I still think it's a dying project. Much as it pains me to say it, I'd caution the OP against investing any significant time in it. _______________________________________________ Qt-jambi-interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-jambi-interest
