On Monday 07 September 2009, Derek Fountain wrote: > 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. Not quite sure this is true. You have to remember that things like juic did not originate in Trolltech, but rather in the KDE community - I know because I contributed to it (although I do not know if anything I did remains in the current code). The KDE version was mainly concerned with the KDE interfaces, but did unless I am very much mistaken have bits of the Qt interface in it. The java bindings for KDE were often behind the rest of the KDE bindings and was the work in the main of just one person but I would not be so sure that it can not be done by the community if there is a will and a small group of people to work with it.
David > > 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 _______________________________________________ Qt-jambi-interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-jambi-interest
