Hi All
I agree with Matthew who is also working on the old principal that "if it ain't
broke why fix it"
The remarks about Qt are irrelevant and a topic for an argumentative forum not
this column
Getting back to current progress. Members have been crying out for the release
of version 1.0.0 but the last 300 odd cosmetic commits have had nothing to do
with fixing the core items that are required for the release of version 1.0.0.
We have some marvelous talent amonst our regular programmers. How about turning
your talents to fixing the core problems associated with the release of version
1.0.0 so we can reach our primary goal.
I am not a programmer in the true sense because I don't use C or its
derivatives but I can still write effective engineering programs in Qbasic to
solve my requirements. I just regularly compile and test the changes as well as
possible but do not try every possibility, so i only easily pick up the most
glaring mistakes.
Barry Gerdes
Beaumont Hills Observatory
S 33' 41' 44" E 150' 56' 32"
> From: matthew...@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:28:46 -0800
> To: stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] renaming of members in the core
>
> Disambiguation required:
>
> QT is an abbreviation for Apple's QuickTime (which Stellarium does not use).
>
> QT is also Trolltech/Nokia's QT platform independent SDK, which
> Stellarium does use.
>
> M
>
> On 20 February 2012 10:20, Thomas Morris <tom.s.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think Timothy was being sarcastic? (Qt is the library/toolkit we use)
> >
> > I tend to agree with Matthew regarding API changes, since many script
> > engine users may not be regular/serious programmers, and don't want to
> > change their scripts too often. Just my opinion!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Thomas
> >
> > On 20 February 2012 18:15, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
> > <rep.dot....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Feb 20, 2012 2:59 PM, "Reaves, Timothy" <trea...@silverfieldstech.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>
> >>> As an aside, Stellarium does not - and probably never will - use QT. QT
> >>> is a technology used for playing audio & video.
> >>
> >> Did not look at trunk (or however the current SCM calls it) lately but
> >> IIRC,
> >> Stellarium _does_ use QT. it does use it to achieve platform-independence
> >> in
> >> some areas like path handling (think boost::filesystem, but done wrong).
> >> Furthermore, we implement theme support (think night mode) and generally
> >> GUI
> >> elements (think file picker, dialogs in e.g. the configuration dialog and
> >> the other function key bound dialogs, including the buttons in the
> >> StelBar).
> >>
> >> So, while it is true that we do not use QT for rendering nor for audio --
> >> since we do not do audio (pity BTW goto could use a wooshing sound ;) -- we
> >> do use it to abstract away certain routine tasks.
> >>
> >> Just as a sidenote for the curious reader!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >>
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