[Kde-bindings] Viability of Qyoto

[Arno Rehn]

On Friday 16 December 2011 06:37:04 Steven Boswell II wrote:
> Yeah, I'm getting tired of it too.  The change you recommended got past that
> crash, but now it dies in my Ui_Setup() function when it tries to create
> the first user-interface element (a QAction, in this case).  Another thing
> I noticed, from the gdb call stack, is that it seems to be running the .NET
> 2.0.50727 runtime, even though I have the 3.5 runtime selected in
> MonoDevelop, and I'm using the 3.5 compiler in assemblygen.
> 
> I can't tell you how much I want to recommend to my workplace that we build
> our app using Qt/Qyoto, but at the rate this is going, I'm probably going
> to have to panic and learn WinForms really quickly.  Qyoto running only
> under Linux is fine for the app I'm building at home, but that's not good
> enough for the app I'm building at work.
> 
> I guess we have to wait until Arno has time to help track down these bugs,
> or until he takes the time to add source-code comments to his code, if
> ever.
Sorry, but I don't think that I'll touch Qyoto again (except for patches that 
you guys contribute). We're considering it unmaintained at the moment. You and 
Dimitar are the first ones who show enough interest in it to actually 
contribute to it.

> Seriously...how did any open-source project ever come into being without
> adequate developer documentation?  I can only speak for myself, but my main
> open-source project (a temporal analog-video denoiser called y4mdenoise,
> part of the mjpegtools project) is heavily documented.  I consider
> developer documentation an unspoken requirement, but clearly I'm in the
> minority.
Yeah, sorry about that. But we just never got round to doing it.

-- 
Arno Rehn