I am following up to some e-mails I sent on the feedback/interests/dev lists[1]
and blogs[2] over a year ago for updating the QtService Component.
I would like to open a new Qt Playground project to create a new equivalent for
Qt5 that is more natively integrated.
Synopsis: QtService Component has not been updated since Qt 4.5. It is template
based and has several drawbacks - (i) no signals/slots, and (ii) it hard
terminates programs keeping them from being able to control shutdown or do
cleanup during shutdown. I had proposed a new API to be in parallel to
QCoreApplication/QApplication to support the daemon-service applications.
Initial support will be equivalent of the current QtService component but using
native classes instead of templates, and with a modular backend component that
could later be used to add support for other service APIs - e.g. systemd - for
seamless integration with different OS-level API for managing services.
Initial Goal is support for Qt5.
Ben
[1] Some of the e-mail threads:
http://lists.qt.nokia.com/public/qt5-feedback/2011-June/000449.html
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.qt5-feedback/76
[2] Some of my thoughts in blog from then:
http://clocksmind.blogspot.com/2011/05/calling-contributors.html
http://clocksmind.blogspot.com/2011/06/qt5-major-update-for-qtservice.html
http://clocksmind.blogspot.com/2011/09/qt5-introducing-qdaemonapplication.html
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