[Kde-perl] Is PerlQt still alive?

Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 17:11:30 CEST 2005


On June 6, 2005 08:30 am, Peter Daum wrote:
> Is there still any active development going on?
>
> I am totally new to perlqt and just trying to find
> out, whether it would be suitable for my purposes.
> What I am looking for, is some GUI-toolkit (mostly
> Linux) with Perl-bindings and a GUI-designer.
> It looks like the best options would be GTK2/Glade
> or PerlQt. I already tried GTK2 (which works
> reasonably
> well). If I could use Qt instead with similar ease,
> I probably would prefer that.
>
> I am a little concerned, that this might turn out to
> be another dead end: I want to reimplement an
> application, that I originally wrote with Kylix, which
> seemed to be a good idea at the time but is
> now pretty much abandoned and Kylix applications are
> becoming increasingly difficult to maintain on current
> Linux distributions.
>
> Unfortunately, PerlQt also looks a little deserted at
> first glance (Last release 2 years ago despite some
> open issues, little traffic in this mailing list ...)
> At the moment it probably still would be good enough,
> but not too far away from now, qt3 will be mostly
> replaced by qt4.
> What is your opinion: will PerlQt still be around for
> a while, keeping up with the further development in
> Qt?
>
> Regards,
>                Peter Daum
>

While the list hasn't been very busy, I'm sure the project is still alive. I 
don't think any of the project members would just up and leave without a 
word :)

Especially when its going so well :D

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom at gmail.com


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