Re: Current status of kdebindings

Let's revive the Qt/KDE ruby bindings !!!!

it was great to be able to write plasma applet while on KF4

I miss it ...

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 4:59 AM Stefano Crocco <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On lunedì 19 novembre 2018 01:38:25 CET Chris Burel wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> > It's been a while since I was really active on perlqt, but with the
> flurry
> > of old bugs getting closed, I've been looking at it again. I haven't seen
> > updates to any of the bindings in a long time, so I thought it would be a
> > good time to check in with everyone and see what the state of everything
> > is.
> >
> > I've been working on a new version of smokegen that uses llvm to parse
> the
> > headers, and have successfully built the smokeqt libraries against qt5,
> on
> > Linux and MSVC. I'm trying to get it working now with mingw so that I can
> > build PerlQt5 for Strawberry Perl. I also expect to get it to work on
> macos
> > soon. Once I get the major platforms working, I'm planning on pushing the
> > changes to the kde git repo and merging to master (I have them up on
> GitHub
> > now while I've been developing, so I can do force pushes).
> >
> > I know a lot of the other bindings depend on smoke, so this should
> unblock a
> > bunch of stuff. But I don't know if any of the other bindings developers
> > are still interested in supporting the old code, or updating it to work
> > with qt5. On the kde techbase, I see Python, Perl, Ruby, C#, Java, and
> > JavaScript listed. I know Python doesn't use smoke, but there still
> aren't
> > (to my knowledge) pykde5 bindings available. All the others use smoke I
> > believe. I only know Richard Dale used to support the Ruby bindings, but
> I
> > haven't heard from him in a long while. Who supported the others?
> >
> > -Chris
>
> While I'm not one of the developers of the KDE bindings, I was an
> enthusiastic
> user of the ruby bindings.
>
> I tried to port the Qt 4 ruby bindings to Qt 5 using your llvm-based
> smokegen
> and it seems that it mostly works (I tried running a couple of programs I
> wrote for qtruby4 and I couldn't see anything wrong with them), although
> there
> are many parts which need more testing and polishing.
>
> If there's someone interested in working on the ruby bindings, I'll gladly
> share the work I've done.
>
> Stefano
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Mathieu Jobin