[Ktechlab-devel] Porting to Qt 4 --> I'd like to help

[Juan De Vincenzo]

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Regards,
Juan

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Juan De Vincenzo
<juandevincenzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a brief intro of myself: I'm a ktechlab enthusiast that, since
> I'm just learning to program, I've been only quietly following the
> developments of the project, but, since my failed attempt to compile
> under KDE 4 a couple of weeks ago (maybe someone remembers the e-mail
> I sent? =P) and also the growing interest that many people in showing
> in the project, I thought that migrating the code to Qt 4 is something
> that should be done.
>
> I saw several e-mails with people talking about doing something like
> this, so I'm really curious to know if this is actually on the process
> of happening. The reason for my interest is that I've been thinking
> that maybe it would be a good learning exercise for me to work/help on
> this. I'm aware that a great amount of work would be involved, mostly
> if you think of the fact that I'm just diving into the Qt world, but
> I'll learn most by doing than just reading books (I'm currently with
> Foundations of Qt Development, and as soon as I'm done with that one
> I'll go to The Book of Qt 4 by Daniel Molkentin).
>
> Could anyone give me some pointers in regards to where to start? Maybe
> I could get some small tasks to carry out? Or should I just pick up a
> .cpp file and start to try to figure out what changes would be
> necessary? I mean, I already printed the Porting to Qt 4 guide from
> the Trolltech docs. ;)
>
> For example a question that comes to my mind now is: would you use the
> qt3toqt4 porting tool or rather rewrite the code around Qt 4?
>
> In the meantime, like Alan Grimes suggested back on December, I'm
> taking a look at the small stuff in the current code and trying to get
> use to it.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>