Re: [q-lang-users] q-lang-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

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

Hi Koray,

and to everyone else who wants/needs Qt/Q and QCalc on Windows...

> That QCalc things, ahem, looks so cool my brain went into a kind of paralysis for a minute as I skimmed the "preliminary documentation" page. When do we, Windows XP suckers, get it? :)

Well, unless some kind soul ports Qt/Q to Windoze for me, it'll probably
take a while before that happens. :( My current TODO list looks like this:

1. Do some cool computer music stuff with QCalc. (I want to show this at
the Linux Audio Conference early next year.)

2. Port Qt/Q and the applications including QCalc to Qt4 on Linux. (I
don't expect major obstacles with this, but it probably won't happen
before Xmas.)

3. Port Qt/Q and the applications to Windows (using the Windows GPL
version of Qt4).

4. Port the Q core and as many of the modules and applications as
possible to 64 bit systems. My current plans are to do that some time in
Spring next year, and I expect this to take a few weeks at least.

(4) is *really* important for Q's future development, now that Q is
being picked up by distro maintainers, so it might even happen before
(3). It all depends on how quickly I can finish (2). While I don't use
Windows myself for anything else than porting Q, I do see the need for
(3), since alas many ppl can't or don't want to kiss Windows good-bye
yet. I think that the Windows port of Q is actually pretty decent
already, but obviously having Qt/Q and QCalc work there would make Q a
real killer scripting language for Windows, so I'll make sure that this
happens in the not-too-distant future. (If anyone wants to give a
helping hand in porting Qt/Q to Windows, please get in touch, that would
be greatly appreciated. ;-)

Cheers,
Albert

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
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