Re: Opie's future

Holger Schurig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.opie.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Lorn,

Mickey was saying why "Develoepers jumped the ship".

> > * Opie still using the (outdated) Qt/Embedded 2.3.x
>
> I don't agree with this one. Qt/E 2.3 is still perfectly usable.

I agree with this. I "jumped ship" because of this reason. When I had our MNCI 
"Ramses" working enought to have applications running on it, I first made a 
crude port of Opie to this hardware. Simply because I had an Ipaq and an 
Zaurus with Opie and I wanted the same on our Industry Device.

I showed this Opie-Demo to Management and to Customers on an early prototype.

But quickly we switched to Qt 3.x because of the SQL methods and because 
Customers of us already programmed in Qt 3.x and didn't want to go back to 
2.x. Customer rules.



At that time I heard things (on IRC) like "Qt 3.x is not really meant for 
Embedded devices, it's slower". But my experience was that the speed of it 
was similar. So Qt 3 had more comfort for the programmer and customers 
demanded some SQL layer and so we went the way of current/recent software.
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