From Sarah.Smith at trolltech.com  Thu Dec 15 17:38:23 2005
From: Sarah.Smith at trolltech.com (Sarah Smith)
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:38:23 +1000
Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Why nobody in the Perl world uses QT
In-Reply-To: <430AB28A.9050701@phase-n.com>
References: <42E48E00.2020707@perltraining.com.au>
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Message-ID: <200512161138.23652.Sarah.Smith@trolltech.com>

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 15:22, you wrote:
> Hi Sarah
>
> Pending that brief discussion on why nobody in the Perl world really
> uses QT for anything, and it mostly appears that the Perl binding are
> just flakey. Nobody really owns them, the originals are from 1997, and a
> 2002/2003 second attempt to do 3.x bindings lasted about 9 months and
> has died since them.
>

This is new from these guys - they do a lot of Qt work:

   http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=Products&category=pq

Its not a Perl binding for Qt, and its a long way from exposing all of Qt 3.x 
in perl, but its a low barrier to entry, especially if you're already 
familiar with ptk:

   http://the-labs.com/PerlTK/pTk-doc/ptkFAQ.html#A1

> But from talking to various people, I think that there is definately
> interest and demand, and if trolltech were to release swig or
> otherwise-based Perl bindings and it looked like they'd be kept up to
> date, then people would quite likely use it.
>
> So, the summary is "interested, but feel neglected, so nobody uses them".
>
> If these opinions were communicated to people that matter, and something
> were to result from it, that would be even better ;)

I guess most of the head trolls only ever see Perl as a scripting language, 
useful for build systems, quick hacks - dunno if any of them have ever 
written a Perl class.

I'd like to see it happen, maybe it will now that 4.x is F/OSS on Windows, 
once Qt 4.x stabilizes.

>
> Thanks again for hosting the talk.
>
> Regards
>
> Adam K
>
> sarah wrote:
> > Jacinta Richardson wrote:
> >>G'day Brisbane PMers,
> >>
> >>Paul Fenwick is visiting Brisbane for training purposes and would love to
> >> meet up with you all.  If anyone can suggest a good pub or vegetarian
> >> friendly restaurant, that would be superb.  If it's possible to arrange
> >> someone or somewhere with a data projector then Paul would love to give
> >> a presentation on Web Development with Perl or Starting a Business or
> >> Perl Security.... (or all three if you want to listen to him all night
> >> long).
> >>
> >>So, he'll be around on the 22nd of August.  Anyone interested?
> >>
> >>All the best,
> >>
> >>	Jacinta
> >
> > I can probably arrange some or all of the above, barring other offers.
> >
> > Presentation: I'd be interested in the Security one, my work might be
> > interested in the Web one
> > Data projector: again work may well be able to oblige
> > Venue: hmm, well my work - will have to check with Boss, alternatively
> > hijack the DP and do it at my place - seats around 10 people.
> > Vego friendly restaurant - kookaburra cafe -
> > http://www.kookaburracafe.com.au/
> > Good pub:  the Normanby - handy to town, etc etc
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