Calligra 3.0 for Qt 5.1?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 31 July 2013 Jul 03:05:45 Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> +2
> 
> May I suggest a two steps approach:
> 
> 0) Get pending work needed for the port to master while still on Qt4. 
> Give them some time till problems are sorted out.

Yes -- that's wnat I'm doing in the krita-mvc-rempt branch, for instance. It's a refactoring that makes KoPart no longer a KPart -- KoView is the only KXMLGuiClient now.

> 
> 1) Port
> 
> Port to Qt5, keep kdelibs deps like they are, use e.g. those kdelibs 
> fake lib I have in coffice.

Yes -- that's what is now happening in the calligra-qt5-rempt branch. Following friedrich's suggestion, I'm now focussing on libs, words, stage, sheets, active (and krita, in my spare time...). But whenever something gets ported by perl, everything gets changed.

> Golden rule: Not refactor. Never ever refactor while porting.

Right -- though sometimes porting feels like refactoring, when the guidelines say "use Qt classes instead of K classes".

I am currently sort of stuck in sheets/localization, where there's a lot of special stuff going on.

> 
> That's not a rule I came up with but its very very true. Just not 
> refactor during a port. Never ever. Get things compiling, starting up, 
> core functionality working, voila.
> 
> 2) Refactor.
> 
> Specific things will need refactoring the one or other way. This will 
> need much testing and has lots of potential for regressions. So, ideally 
> now the work should happen in master.

Hm... I wonder how difficult will that be when, for instance, we need to refactor the plugin system?

> 
> What I suggest is to do the port in a branch, get things working good 
> enough so people can at least start the apps, load a document, view it. 
> Then merge the work to master, start discussing / working on needed 
> refactorings.

Right!

> p.s. I would be willing to help on 1) and 2).

that would be awesome :-). calligra-qt5-rempt is the place to be for now :-)
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Boudewijn Rempt
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