Re: [Armory-devel] About using qt in armory

[darrik m. <da...@my...>]

Ananth:

My suggestion was two-fold and thus:

A) Instead of writing separate client code for each platform we propose
to run the client and server on, we use a cross-platform toolkit to
cover the vast majority of common platforms.  I suggested Qt because I
am very experienced with it.  However, there are others available, and
I'm sure most of them will do what we need them to do.  I set about
working out a Qt-based solution and have almost all the previous code
working with Qt, as well as some groundwork for abstracting the *nix
daemon process or win32 service to provide one cross-platform interface.

B) Instead of writing some plugins and having some built-in
functionality of the client, I suggested we write a client that simply
loads whatever plugins it's told to.  This keeps the interface uniform,
as well as allowing separate maintenance on even the "built-in"
functionality, keeping that separate from the client proper.  To this
end, I've also laid down some code in that direction.

A cross-platform toolkit (while it may not support -every- possible
platform) will allow us to save dev time on the major ones, and if need
be, we can still #ifdef the hell out of some code for legacy systems and
platforms not supported by our toolkit.  Qt seems like a good choice to
me (especially since I have a lot of it written already), and it
provides a build system with tools for abstracting cross-platform
compilation.

Let me know what you (or anyone else) thinks of this.  I've put quite a
bit of code in place already, and I don't want to go much further if
we're not all in agreement.  I should have a working copy of both server
and client in the svn repository by early next week (if not this weekend).

~Darrik Mazey


Ananth wrote:
> Message body follows:
>
> Hey Darrik,
> I am Ananth, one of the developers in Armory. Danilo was
> asking me to get in touch with you about using QT. Can you
> mail me whatever you wanted to discuss? Or if you could come
> online on #armory in the next 1 hour, that would be great.
> my email is ana...@gm...
>
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