Re: [AMOS-devel] AMOS release *Update*

[Florent A. <flo...@gm...>]

Thanks for the explanations Mike. I guess we won't touch the folder 
names then. Just as long as everyone knows that one is QT3 and the other 
QT4 (where the development efforts should go).
Florent


On 19/01/11 13:58, Michael Schatz wrote:
> At the moment, only the Qt3 version is integrated into the build 
> system, and the 'hawkeye' directory is not used at all. You  have to 
> manually go into the hawkeye directory and run qmake to build the Qt 4 
> version (we could consider removing hawkeye from the tarball for this 
> reason).
>
> I am conceptually in favor of renaming the directories, just that CVS 
> is very limited for moving files around without destroying the 
> history. I suggest we rename the directories once the Qt4 port is a 
> little more complete. The name 'bankViewer' is entirely historical. It 
> all started out as a side project to look at a few features 
> (replicating parts of the ancient Celamy system from the original 
> Celera Assembler days). For a while I called it the Assembly 
> Investigator, but that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue either so 
> we renamed it Hawkeye before the publication.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Florent Angly 
> <flo...@gm... <mailto:flo...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/12/10 08:49, Michael Schatz wrote:
>     >
>     > The 'bankviewer' directory contains the published version of
>     hawkeye,
>     > using Qt version 3 going back to my original work some 6 years ago.
>     > 'hawkeye' contains a new experimental version based on Qt version 4
>     > created using the qt 3 to 4 conversion tool and a lot of manual
>     work.
>     > The Qt4 version is mostly working, but some aspects remain
>     broken from
>     > the Qt conversion (mostly cosmetic problems).
>     >
>     > In the short term, the Qt3 version is more stable, but it is
>     becoming
>     > increasingly difficult to install Qt3. In the long term, the Qt4
>     based
>     > version is where the development effort needs to go. I don't
>     have any
>     > resources to work on hawkeye for at least the next several
>     months, so
>     > it is not included in the default build but is included in the
>     > tarballs for users that only have qt4 available.
>
>     Going with QT4 is a good move. Thanks for starting this effort
>     Michael.
>
>     I am not very familiar with the compiling process in AMOS. How is the
>     choice made to compile one or the other Hawkeye version? The
>     configure.ac <http://configure.ac> file mentions only 'bankViewer'
>     but not 'hawkeye'
>
>     Can I suggest that we make Hawkeye QT4 our default, but keep providing
>     Hawkeye QT3 as an alternative for the time being? And, how would I go
>     about renaming the 'bankViewer' folder (Hawkeye QT3) and 'hawkeye'
>     folders to something more meaningful, like for example,
>     'hawkeye_legacy'
>     and 'hawkeye' respectively?
>
>     Best,
>
>     Florent
>
>
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