[Mono-dev] Qt anyone?

[Arno Rehn]

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 23:12:52 you wrote:
> Hi Arno,
>
> I think Qyoto is a really great initiative and a really strong point to
> make Mono shine.
>
> But I wonder if you have plans (and resources) to:
>
> - Relaunch a website with information/tutorials/downloads. It doesn't
> matter how good Qyoto is if no one can easily find it.
We will definitely put up stuff on techbase.kde.org, but I don't know if we'll 
relaunch a full blown website. Maybe something on sourceforge, we'll see.

> - Publish builds on the different OSs. IMHO what makes Qyoto rock is
> being able to create native GUIs for Solaris/Linux/Windows/Mac with a
> single codebase and minor tweaks. If we only have Linux, then sticking
> to WinForms or GTK# is still better, if only Mac I guess monoobjc is the
> right solution, and so on.
Yes, we'll do that once we have time to build it on windows and os x.

> I think monoobjc is the perfect example: they've a solid website, full
> of samples, which gives a very good feeling when you enter it. You
> immediately think "hey, this is a solid solution".
>
> Regards,
>
> pablo
>
> Arno Rehn escribió:
> > On Linux it's pretty straight forward. Download a recent kde-bindings
> > tarball and extract it somewhere. Build it as every other KDE module with
> > cmake. Create a build directory, do "cd build-dir; ccmake src-dir".
> > Disable the stuff you don't want/don't need, like Soprano or Nepomuk
> > bindings. Then just "make; make install" as usual.
> > We haven't tried building on Solaris yet. On OS X someone got it working,
> > but there seem to be issues with header files not being correctly found.
> > You might have to play a bit to get it working there.
> >
> > On Friday 06 February 2009 20:36:29 pablosantosluac at terra.es wrote:
> >> are there tutorials to build on Mac/Linux/Solaris?
> >>
> >> Daniel Morgan escribió:
> >>> Qyoto / Kimono Project
> >>> http://ekarchive.elikirk.com/david/qyoto/
> >>>
> >>> Here is a different project with a similar goal of creating CLR
> >>> bindings for qt - qt4dotnet http://code.google.com/p/qt4dotnet/
> >>>
> >>> If you google, you might be able to find ancient C# bindings to qt
> >>> called qt# - but it has been abandoned.
> >>>
> >>> On a different subject, I wonder if someone would dare replace the glib
> >>> and other dependencies in mono with qt.  Then create clr bindings to
> >>> qt. With these bindings, you could re-write mono using the clr bindings
> >>> to qt.  Now, that would be interesting.
> >>>
> >>> Please note, I am not saying anything is wrong with glib and its
> >>> dependencies, I just think it would be neat to re-write mono using qt
> >>> instead of glib.  This way, you could write mono in C++ and have its
> >>> internals OOP.
> >>>
> >>> Changing subject again, I think its good that there are many GUIs you
> >>> can choose to use on top of mono: qyoto/kimono, asp.net, gtk#, swf,
> >>> etc...
> >>>
> >>> --- On Fri, 2/6/09, pablosantosluac at terra.es <pablosantosluac at terra.es>
> >
> > wrote:
> >>>> From: pablosantosluac at terra.es <pablosantosluac at terra.es>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Qt anyone?
> >>>> To: "SE1" <ikruis at gmail.com>
> >>>> Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> >>>> Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 6:51 AM
> >>>> Ok, great. The problem is exactly what you mentioned: with
> >>>> no website
> >>>> and no info... there's no way developers can get
> >>>> interested on it.
> >>>>
> >>>> SE1 escribió:
> >>>>> PABLOSANTOSLUAC at terra.es wrote:
> >>>>>>   Hi there,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   After reading:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/05/2138228,
> >>>>
> >>>>>>   and after the announce of the LGPL Qt release, I
> >>>>
> >>>> think it's quite clear
> >>>>
> >>>>>>   there's a lot to gain from a *solid* Qt
> >>>>
> >>>> binding for Mono.
> >>>>
> >>>>>>   I mean, the Qyoto doesn't look like an alive
> >>>>
> >>>> project anymore (not at
> >>>>
> >>>>>>   least a couple of weeks ago) and if I remember
> >>>>
> >>>> correctly it is
> >>>>
> >>>>>>   restricted to Linux (true cross-platform is
> >>>>
> >>>> needed).
> >>>>
> >>>>>>   And... apps! I'd be eager to port plastic
> >>>>
> >>>> GUI to Qt/C#, and maybe we
> >>>>
> >>>>>>   could start from the Qyoto stuff, but not sure
> >>>>
> >>>> about the status.
> >>>>
> >>>>>>   pablo
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>>>> Mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> >>>>
> >>>> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
> >>>>
> >>>>> Someone brought the same questions up recently. If you
> >>>>
> >>>> read the thread at
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.nabble.com/Qyoto-project-dead---ts21427284.html
> >>>> you'll see that
> >>>>
> >>>>> although the Qyoto website is down, the project is
> >>>>
> >>>> still very much alive. It
> >>>>
> >>>>> also works cross-platform, just lacks the building
> >>>>
> >>>> support at the moment.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Ilmar
> >>>>
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