Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-20 Thread Jason H
+infinity this. From: Alan Ezust To: Mark Summerfield Cc: interest@qt-project.org Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles... On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Mark Summerfield wrote: > -

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-18 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Richard Moore wrote: >> Qt's Javascript would be much more useful if wrappers for all the Qt >> classes were already in it. >> It is so much more enjoyable to code in PyQt using the Qt classes I >> already know and love from C++. I think it should be possible from

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-18 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
Am 18.08.2012 um 18:18 schrieb Till Oliver Knoll : > ... > > However zlib does /not/ support ZIP files, ... http://www.zlib.net/zlib_faq.html#faq11 Cheers, Oliver ___ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mail

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-18 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
Am 18.08.2012 um 17:32 schrieb Alan Ezust : > ... > >> - An API for reading and writing .gz, .zip, and .tar.gz files. > > Yes, this is *much* needed. I see zlib already in 3rdparty. So it's > packaged with Qt but not exposed as an API. zlib has been there for ages (probably Qt 1.x already). And

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-18 Thread Richard Moore
On 18 August 2012 16:32, Alan Ezust wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Mark Summerfield wrote: >> - One or more official language bindings using the introspection API, >> e.g., for Python and for Java. > > Qt's Javascript would be much more useful if wrappers for all the Qt > classes wer

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-18 Thread Alan Ezust
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Mark Summerfield wrote: > Hi, > > I hope that Digia proves to be a good steward of Qt---for Qt/Desktop > users as well as for Qt/Mobile users! > > Here are some of the things I'd like to see in a future Qt.* > > - A full C++ API for all the things that currently ca

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Ramakanthreddy_Kesireddy
+ramakanthreddy_kesireddy=mahindrasatyam@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Marc Mutz Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:04 PM To: interest@qt-project.org Cc: developm...@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles... On Thursday August 16 2012, Mark Summerfield wrote: > On Thu,

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Jason H
: Jason H Cc: "interest@qt-project.org" Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles... On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Jason H wrote: > > > > - A new model/view architecture that is a lot easier t

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 15.09.34, André Somers wrote: > > There was a Model/View NG project... > > Which basically became what we have now in QML, if I am correct. ItemViews NG → Widgets NG → Qt Quick Components. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Archite

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Rui Maciel
On 08/16/2012 11:47 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > 1) std::string is broken with GCC. The devs had to break binary compatibility > between C++98 and C++11. Therefore, you should either: >a) REQUIRE C++11 and require a reasonably recent GCC (4.6 and up) >b) stop using std::string > > I hig

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Marc Mutz
On Thursday August 16 2012, Mark Summerfield wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:28:25 +0100 > > Richard Moore wrote: > > On 16 August 2012 13:12, Mark Summerfield wrote: > > > Hi Thiago, > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:07:08 +0200 > > > > > > Thiago Macieira wrote: > > >> On quinta-feira, 16 de

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Arno Rehn
On 16/08/12 13:07, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 10.54.30, Mark Summerfield wrote: >> - An introspection API similar in spirit to the one provided by Gtk+ >>which is specifically designed to make it as straightforward as >>possible to add language bindings t

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread André Somers
Op 16-8-2012 15:02, Mark Summerfield schreef: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:24:21 -0700 (PDT) > Jason H wrote: >> >>> - A new model/view architecture that is a lot easier to use and which >>> is >>designed from the ground up to work well with databases. >> I complain about it too, but I cannot sugg

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
16.08.2012, 17:02, "Mark Summerfield" : >>> - High-level support for client/server programming with the middleware >>    able to be straight TCP/IP (e.g., for LANs), OpenVPN, etc. >>  QtSOAP is not good enough, however, I think a Q-Object based SOAP proxy >>  should not be that hard. This fall I

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Mark Summerfield
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Jason H wrote: > > > > - A new model/view architecture that is a lot easier to use and which > > is >   designed from the ground up to work well with databases. > I complain about it too, but I cannot suggest a better one than what > exists. For all its c

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Mark Summerfield
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:28:25 +0100 Richard Moore wrote: > On 16 August 2012 13:12, Mark Summerfield wrote: > > Hi Thiago, > > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:07:08 +0200 > > Thiago Macieira wrote: > >> On quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 10.54.30, Mark Summerfield > >> wrote: > >> > - High-level su

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Richard Moore
On 16 August 2012 13:12, Mark Summerfield wrote: > Hi Thiago, > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:07:08 +0200 > Thiago Macieira wrote: >> On quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 10.54.30, Mark Summerfield wrote: >> > - High-level support for client/server programming with the middleware >> > able to be st

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Jason H
> - A new model/view architecture that is a lot easier to use and which is   designed from the ground up to work well with databases. I complain about it too, but I cannot suggest a better one than what exists. For all its complexity it works well. >- High-level support for client/server pro

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Mark Summerfield
Hi Thiago, On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:07:08 +0200 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 10.54.30, Mark Summerfield wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I hope that Digia proves to be a good steward of Qt---for Qt/Desktop > > users as well as for Qt/Mobile users! > > > > Here are some of

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread R. Reucher
On Thursday 16 August 2012 13:39:10 Rainer Wiesenfarth wrote: > From: Mark Summerfield > > > Here are some of the things I'd like to see in a future Qt.* > > [...] > > I'd like to add our hopes as a long-term (>10 years) commercial customer > here: Please do not underestimate the importance of th

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Rainer Wiesenfarth
From: Mark Summerfield > Here are some of the things I'd like to see in a future Qt.* > [...] I'd like to add our hopes as a long-term (>10 years) commercial customer here: Please do not underestimate the importance of the desktop edition. Although we develop almost exclusively for Windows, we pre

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 10.54.30, Mark Summerfield wrote: > Hi, > > I hope that Digia proves to be a good steward of Qt---for Qt/Desktop > users as well as for Qt/Mobile users! > > Here are some of the things I'd like to see in a future Qt.* > > - A full C++ API for all the things tha

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
16.08.2012, 13:54, "Mark Summerfield" : > Hi, > > I hope that Digia proves to be a good steward of Qt---for Qt/Desktop > users as well as for Qt/Mobile users! > > Here are some of the things I'd like to see in a future Qt.* > > - A full C++ API for all the things that currently can only be done >

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Marc Mutz
On Thursday August 16 2012, Rui Maciel wrote: > On 08/16/2012 10:54 AM, Mark Summerfield wrote: > > Here are some of the things I'd like to see in a future Qt.* > > Proper support for std::string would be a nice start. To me, Qt's main > drawback is how it fails to support such a basic feature, an

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 11.23.37, Rui Maciel wrote: > On 08/16/2012 10:54 AM, Mark Summerfield wrote: > > Here are some of the things I'd like to see in a future Qt.* > > Proper support for std::string would be a nice start. To me, Qt's main > drawback is how it fails to support such

Re: [Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

2012-08-16 Thread Rui Maciel
On 08/16/2012 10:54 AM, Mark Summerfield wrote: > Here are some of the things I'd like to see in a future Qt.* Proper support for std::string would be a nice start. To me, Qt's main drawback is how it fails to support such a basic feature, and how the conversion between QString and std::string