[Kde-bindings] QtRuby & Korundum on KF5

[Arno Rehn]

On 12/08/15 23:05, Mathieu Jobin wrote:
> I was afraid kde-bindings would have lots of traffic for other languages,
> and ruby content would get somewhat submerged in it...
> but after looking at the archives, I see there is very little traffic.
>
> two other person asked last month about QtRuby on KF5 status.
> and one person asked a similar question in June about the Python equivalent.
>
> does our bottleneck is shared for both ruby and python?
> We both rely on smoke, right?
> Is there a team that usually takes on the ground base work for all other
> bindings?
No, the Python bindings are based off PyQt/SIP, while the Ruby ones rely 
one smoke. Previously, other bindings were based on smoke as well: Qyoto 
(Mono/C#) and the Perl ones, specifically. Qyoto is not developed 
anymore (but a replacement project exists. I don't know the status of 
the Perl bindings.

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Arno Rehn <arno at arnorehn.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mathieu,
>>
>>
>> On 12/08/15 21:54, Mathieu Jobin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Arno, Richard,
>>>
>>> How are you? I was curious about the status of using QtRuby on a system
>>> with most application built on top of KF5 ? I tried integrating the
>>> KatePart and KonsolePart but since kate and konsole are built on kf5, it
>>> would not load.
>>>
>> I'm afraid that the port to KF5 hasn't even begun yet. The underyling
>> library, libsmoke, is not yet wrapping Qt5, too.
>>
>> I also could not find if there is a mailing list, or some sort of organized
>>> community around the projet? where can I read more about it? How many
>>> people working on it?
>>>
>> The mailing list would be kde-bindings at kde.org. As far as I remember,
>> though, no one is actively working on QtRuby or Korundum anymore. I might
>> be wrong though.
>>
>> Richard, any news from you? :)
>>
>> --
>> Arno Rehn
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Arno Rehn