Re: [GLE-general] Problems with QGLE on windows 10

[Christian T. S. <ct...@de...>]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 09:28:11AM +0200, Radek Machulka wrote:
> Well, since we are talking about GLE development status, here are my concerns.
> 
> On my Arch Linux, the AUR package is orphaned since 2016, but that is Arch specific thing.
> However the GLE itself does not build from source anymore (the problem is described here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gle-graphics#comment-605625). The QGLE itself does not neither build nor run (I have one old binary still installed).

Does this fix it?

https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/gle-graphics/blob/master/debian/patches/fix-ftbfs-with-gcc7

> So I ended writing my own QGLE in python and Qt5, however it is quite stupid. I do not use it to draw, only to instantly visualize changes when editing the source, and also as a general viewer for gle files. However if anybody is interested I can make it public.
> 
> Nevertheless, because of all this I tried to look what is the current development status of GLE and it does not look good. Maybe I am wrong but any 'function related' development was 'recently' done by Jan Struyf whose last commit is from 2015, next there seems to be only commits from Vincent LaBella, who fixes some building issues.
> 
> It makes me sad (because the GLE is software I use quite a lot), but is looks like the project is slowly dying (I will be happy to be proving wrong). So it is maybe good time to collect all the compatible libraries and make some sort of package/container which one will able to build or run in the future (I would do it myself, but this is not my field).

GLE can not die, it tried before with 3.3h, then we got a restart with
version 3.5.  And after that it tried to die again, and we got another
restart with version 4.  And it became better every time.

I do not use qgle, except for testing that it works. I have been thinking of
packaging all the extras that are there (emacs and vi mode, examples) for
Debian. I would not mind to add another tool to that, if I ever create that
package. I will have to drop the qt4 code from Debian soon, maybe some
people would like to see your qt5 tool instead of none?

Christian