[dot] Quanta Starts Transition to KDevelop Framework

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1122367961/

From: Jens Herden <jens at kdewebdev.org>
Dept: stronger-together
Date: Tuesday 26/Jul/2005, @03:52

Quanta Starts Transition to KDevelop Framework
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   After five weeks intensive work in Romania Quanta's
[http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/] main developer Andras Mantia together
with Jens Herden finished the first major step of Quanta's port to the
KDevelop [http://www.kdevelop.org/] framework. Being able to get this
result in a relative short time was only possible because of the
excellent framework provided by the KDevelop project and the support of
KDE e.V. [http://www.kde-ev.org/].

     Only with this support Jens Herden was able to travel from
Cambodia, his current living place, to Romania. Being in Romania made it
also possible to travel to Kiev to attend the KDevelop conference and
meet the developers personally.

     The goal of this new development is to divide up Quanta's code into
several plugins for the KDevelop framework. Quanta will remain a
separate application and keep its name.
 Some benefits of this are:
    *  Code sharing between both projects to avoid double efforts for
      the same functions.
    *  New and old plugins can be used from both applications.
    *  Quanta's code base will be much easier to understand and
      maintain.
    * The modular design allows the user to create his/her customised
      Quanta by disabling unwanted plugins or enabling plugins from
      other sources.

     The new, plugin based Quanta will be released together with KDE
4.0. But we are confident to release a first preview version called
"Kuanta" shortly after Quanta 3.5 is released.

     The source code is available on the SVN server under
/branches/work/kdevquanta/
[http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/kdevquanta/].

     This version is already usable and does provide the basic features
of Quanta.
 More information can be found in the README
[http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/kdevquanta/README] and DESIGN
[http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/kdevquanta/DESIGN] files.