Can QT3 and QT5 live together? If so, you could break the rewrite down into individual applications (RDLibrary, RDAdmin, etc.) and spread it out over time and among programmers.
Otherwise you have to do the whole product at once, which is a *slightly* bigger task. On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Andy Sayler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Wayne Merricks > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > QT3 is a bit of a worry longer term though. To put it into perspective > QT4 was released 6 or 7 years ago and QT5 in 2012. There is a migration > path to QT4 with automated tools to handle the tedious work but doing a > quick scout through several hundred thousand lines of Rivendell, it will be > a huge effort to port to QT4. > > > > I'm sure theres many more years of building from source left in QT3 but > it will be a barrier that will only get harder to overcome. > > > > Wasn't there talk of a QT4 branch in the SVN at one point? I'm fairly > certain development stalled but does anyone know the current status of that? > > Getting off topic, but at this point, if someone were to put in the > development effort, I'd probably recommend going straight to QT5 and > skipping QT4 all together. Otherwise we'll be in the same boat again > in another year or two. As you mention, even QT4 is over 5 years old > at this point. > > How well separated is the Rivendell UI code from the rest of the code > base? Is it fairly well encapsulated such that writing a new UI layer > is a relatively straightforward process, or is it intermingled with > all of the core logic, audio engine, etc? We generally have a handfull > of coders interested in working on specific projects, but it would be > an easier sell if teh system was already set up for straightforward UI > layer swapping. > > Or else Rivendell should just apply as a Google Summer of Code project > next summer and try to recruit a GSoC intern to work on it. > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > -- druidlabs.wordpress.com flickr.com/photos/druidlabs/sets
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