Re:Qt and Open Source
by brnt on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:10AM
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Does anyone here use Copperspice? Saw it mentioned elsewhere as a possible alternative. Theyre a kind of fork of Qt5, ditched the moc, and seem to be ran as a regular Floss project. I have no experience with it, but I do with Qt, which I like very much, so if there are users of Copperspice here I'd be very interested in your experience.
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Re:Qt and Open Source
by plorkyeran on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:07PM
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Copperspice was interesting as a technical experiment to see if improvements to C++ have made the moc no longer needed. The basic problem with using it to actually write applications is that the development effort on it isn't put into things which make your application better. Modernizing and cleaning up the Qt codebase is great for the people working on Qt (or Cs), but most of the changes aren't actually valuable for users of it.
A much less invasive solution to the problem: https://github.com/woboq/verdigris
Re:Qt and Open Source
by de_watcher on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:29AM
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Copperspice is just a purity zealot project specifically against the moc, it's not a healthy goal. The focus should be on the GUI.