Re: Current status of kdebindings

On luned=C3=AC 25 marzo 2024 04:11:14 CET Mathieu Jobin wrote:
> Reviving this old thread.
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> Now that Plasma 6 is out. Would there be enough interests to see QtRuby
> being brought back to life for Qt6 ?
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> I did not get a chance to test the port to Qt5, anybody can comment on how
> well it worked?
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> If we could make it easier on people to install it and start off. I'm
> willing to put some of my time, if there is a team or interested people to
> work with.
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> cheers,


Unfortunately, my attempt to document and improve the old bindings was=20
unsuccessful: I realized that I was able to understand what a single functi=
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did, but I couldn't see how everything fit together. In the end, I gave up.=
 The=20
bindings themselves worked well enough, at least until I switched to ruby 3=
=2E1.=20
=46rom that version of ruby, they practically stopped working because creat=
ing a=20
second object of any class produced an error complaining about a missing=20
allocator (or something like that). Just a few days ago, I had to update al=
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my system and realized that they don't even build correctly with the curren=
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version of Qt5, for reasons I can't understand.

I'd love for QtRuby to be brought back, but I'm not sure whether starting f=
rom=20
the old bindings is the best way to proceed. I was wandering whether using=
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Swig [1] wouldn't be a better idea. I tried creating wrappers for a few=20
methods of simple classes like QPoint, QSize and QRect and they were very e=
asy=20
to do. Things become more difficult for QObject derived classes, as you hav=
e to=20
take care of memory management and so on, not to mention signal-slot=20
connections, which I didn't try to do.

In case there's a group working on this, I can lend a hand, too.=20
Unfortunately, until the end of June I won't have much free time, so my hel=
p=20
will be limited. Maybe, it would be a good idea to look for other intereste=
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people on the ruby mailing list.

Stefano

[1] https://www.swig.org/