I can play cannonball in qt-win32 :-)

[Holger]

On Friday 28 February 2003 12:34, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > > You can reach 80% of the goal into 20% of the time, for the
> > > remaining stuff you
> > > need 80% (because the needed efforts will be grow more and more),
> > > so multiply
> > > the current used time with 5 and you can estimate the whole time
> > > needed for the
> > > port completeness. I may fail with this assumption and you may be
> > > currently at a
> > > 90% level so you have to multiply with 2 or 3, but let us hear
> > > what Chris say to
> > > this.
> >
> > The 80/20 rule is about right. I think there is a big gap between what =
we
> > have now and something that KDE will run atop of.
>
> Can you give some more details, why you are thinking in this manner ?
>
> > Having said that, I believe once people see the initial work that has
> > been
>
> done, that we are
>
> > serious, and the porting attempt is actually going somewhere, that shou=
ld
> > stir some interest and may even see more support coming our way.
>
> BTW: I haven't heard anything from this port. Does this mean, that the
> efforts has been stopped ?
> Was my initial 80/20 assumption so frustrating, that anybody sees the who=
le
> mountain, which seem to hard to be broken ? I hope no.
>
> I'm working on this stuff about 2 years and have funny time but also very
> hard times, were my endurance was requested very much.
> Giving up isn't the right way. I remember some time in my job time having
> very hard challenges and now, when I see back, I'm happy, that I haven't
> gave up.
>
> So be encouraged to go on this road and take only one step after another.
>
> Regards
> Ralf
>
Hi,

i haven=B4t given up on this, i was only quite busy the last days, and i wa=
s=20
working on "freeing" kde 3.1 from X dependencies, so i was targeting the=20
problem "kde on windows" from the other side. my work on that was quite qui=
ck=20
and dirty again, but i reached a state where i have a global overview what=
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has to be done to fix the remaining "problems" in kde, and i also was able =
to=20
work with a kde konsole under qt/embedded. konqueror and all the other=20
"bigger" programs are still segfaulting, because i simply commented out all=
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stuff that was dependant on X.

i also have to tell you that i do work for a company, which pays me to work=
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with qt to create a program for lawyers, and i will get a commercial licens=
e=20
for qt on x11 and on windows. so i think i won=B4t be able to work on the=20
windows port of qt any more, because i will have the files i was working on=
=20
in source code from trolltech. :-(

on the other hand from now on i can work on compiling kde on windows with a=
=20
already finished qt for windows, and i think that will go forward even=20
faster...

i think the qt port is in a stage, where people can actually see that it is=
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almost working, and when there will be more interest in kde on windows, let=
=B4s=20
say in summer or so, it should be a doable task to finish this port with th=
e=20
manpower of five to ten people in a month or so.


thanks, Holger