On 10/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anne-Marie Mahfouf</b> <<a href="mailto:annemarie.mahfouf@free.fr">annemarie.mahfouf@free.fr</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>Currently it's quite difficult to see what KPhysics is about as the svn<br>sources don't compile (you probably did the import with KDevelop sources and<br>this is not adapted to a KDE module).</blockquote><div>
<br>Most interesting. It compiles perfectly on my Gentoo box (running the most recent version of KDevelop in Portage - 3.3.4), but I'll try to see what's wrong on my Kubuntu install. I don't recall what I did when I first got started - although I was hacking a lot of code in vim for quite a while - but I don't think I used one of KDevelop's project templates. In retrospect, I did notice some strange occurrences with one of the classes not showing up in the KDevelop class hierarchy, so I think I'll have to reimport the code in a new KDevelop project.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What would be good from you:<br>- do you allow us to port Physics to kde4?</blockquote>
<div><br>Of course. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- can you write a few words on how you designed it?</blockquote>
<div><br>I've updated the README and TODO files with more information about the overall design and features that need to be implemented. Do let me know if further clarification is needed.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
KPhysics cannot be the work of 1 person because if it is, it'll never be<br>finished. We need to define a plan so several people can work on it. Thus we<br>need a description of your current work and how you see the future
<br>development.</blockquote><div><br>I realise that and definitely welcome any contribution to the project. But I didn't perceive much interest until very recently, which is also why the code base is in a messy state with ugly hacks here and there (
e.g. allcode.h - a failed SWIG workaround). Scripting development has hit a brick wall due to the SWIG problem documented in the readme. I was actually evaluating Boost.Python as an alternative a few days ago. If we can accomplish all wrapping with SWIG however, it makes development a lot easier.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It would be really good if KPhysics is in KDE4. That would be something new.<br>
But to achieve this, we need to get started on it now.</blockquote><div><br>Absolutely. I would love to see it ready for KDE4.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks in advance,<br><br>Anne-Marie<br><br>PS: I CC you and invite all further discussion to do so.<br><br>On Saturday 07 October 2006 00:38, Harish Kukreja wrote:<br>> Greetings,<br>><br>> Due to other commitments (University studies), I have been unable to add
<br>> anything valuable to the project since the most recent bugfix. Please note<br>> that this does not mean the project has been abandoned. There simply are<br>> not enough hours in a week for me to sustain an acceptable development rate
<br>> as of this moment, but I expect the situation to improve somewhat in the<br>> coming weeks.<br>><br>> Also, I notice that my responses to other devs did not register on the KDE<br>> mailing lists (probably because I had only subscribed to the kde-soc list
<br>> until very recently). Sincerest apologies for this.<br>><br>> Harish Kukreja<br></blockquote></div><br>