On Sep 26, 2013, at 16:55 06, Rob Landry wrote: > Other than Rivendell, I gather that there weren't a lot of applications built > on Qt3.
The only one I'm aware of that is on a scale of complexity comparable to Rivendell is KDE3. There were lots of smaller ones. Many have since been ported to Qt4 -- not a difficult undertaking for a simple app. I've done some of mine as well (e.g. CallCommander, SoundPanel). > Otherwise, the Qt developers would have felt pressure to keep their > subsequent versions compatible with it, or maybe Qt3 would have been forked > by someone with an interest in keeping the applications built on it viable. KDE4 took years. Admittedly, there were many changes in the architecture itself that factored into that, but a significant portion of the work involved porting things to Qt4. And that was with a project with a much larger pool of developer resources to draw on than Rivendell. My attitude towards Qt versioning is pretty much a pragmatic, dollars & cents engineering one: so long as Qt3 can be tweaked to work, there's no reason to switch. If/when we get to the point where that strategy starts to become impractical, then we'll move towards something else. What that 'something' will be is impossible to say at the moment. It's conceivable that it wouldn't be Qt at all. We'll cross that bridge if/when we come to it. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, | | more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the | | creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who | | would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely | | lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones. | | -- Niccolo Machiavelli | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
