[Qt] V2.0 RC

[Matthias Klumpp]

Great thanks for this!
The new version looks excellent, it seems that it matches all Debian
quality criteria now.
I will recheck the package and maybe the new version can be used in Debian
later!
Kind regards
  Matthias Klumpp


On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:52:02 +0100, Ge592 <Ge592 at telenet.be> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have almost finished a new version, would you
> all be so kind to test, review the new readmes and 
> provide feedback for the respective platforms.
> 
> http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/fpcqt4.html
> Look for V2.0 RC
> 
> The intent was to use qmake instead of compile scripts.
> 
>  Pros: 
> ===
>   - more familiar to most people
> 
>   - no need to edit compile script 
> 
>   - no moc files distributed in source tar 
>     (but as binding was Qt version dependent, this was not really a
>     problem)
> 
>   - usage of a makefile build system and no moc files, may open
>   perspectives
>     on adding binding to fpc svn (any fpc devs on this list ?).
> 
>   - though the qmake project file is much larger than the compile
scripts, 
>     readmes are more platform independent and OsX frameworks creation
>     is easier.
> 
>   - Easier installation of library on every platform using make install,
>     especially since the addition of the version to the library, 
>     a lot of symlinks were needed in Linux.
> 
> Cons:
> ====
>   - much slower compilation (especially painful for me, I do this a lot
:-)
> 
> Library Renamed:
> ===========
> The library was renamed, because the name should reflect what it is.
> For Pascal it is an interface to Qt4, but just naming it Qt4Intf.dll 
> does not show that it really only is for Pascal. E.g. there is libqtruby,

> therefore pascal should be in the name. 
> Some people think it is a general (C) interface to Qt4,but it isn't. 
> There are provisions to ease usage with Pascal, these provisions
> rely on the availability of some pascal language callbacks/factories
> available
> to the C++ code.  With some people I refer to some other languages who 
> thought that they could use this binding. This name change does not
> affect the Lazarus LCL code, it only the obsoletes various wikis and 
> instructions on some users sites (... please get libqt4intf.dll from FPC
> Qt4 
> Home site...) I apologize :-)
> 
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> Den Jean
> 
> 
> 
> 
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