Re: [q-lang-users] Q 7.8 RC2 available

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Eddie Rucker wrote:
> Note: To get qt-q going on Debian, you'll need a train-load of stuff:

Thanks for the information, that should be helpful for Debian users.

BTW, does your list of packages also include SmokeQt? Or did you install
that from source? Is there a package in Debian which contains SmokeQt?

> I wonder if this is going to 
> make portable q/qt scripts across Linux, MAC, and Windoze difficult?

I don't think so. Besides SmokeQt, Qt/Q only uses standard Qt stuff
(libqt, libqui, libqassistantclient) which should be available on any
platform supported by Qt. The distro-specific packaging of Qt may make
it a little harder to compile Qt/Q on some systems, but once it is up
and running, existing Qt/Q scripts should just work.

Maybe some kind soul will eventually take care of doing an "all-in-one"
Q package for Debian which includes Qt/Q. It shouldn't be too hard to do
this, as the complete build process for all things Q on Unix-like
systems is already documented in the RPM spec file. I always wanted to
have a look at Debian myself, but unfortunately I'm just too busy with
other things right now.

Albert

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