Re: Getting Mozilla/QT off the ground again

Aditya Sengupta <[email protected]> Thu, 04 Mar 2004 11:19:32 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.qt
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
KaiRo - Robert Kaiser wrote:
>> I'm also interesting in this project, and going to do some programming 
>> with
>> it those days. Is the QT_REBIRTH_200302022_BRANCH branch correct place
>> with the latest Qt/Mozilla sources? 
> 
> 
> Well, that branch is old and doesn't work with current builds. It 
> doesn't even build for me on a current gcc.
> 
> We (whoever can do the actual prgramming work) should work on a new 
> mini-branch (as I described), the "old" branch can serve as a model for 
> how to do it, but I guess we would have to rewrite most of the real 
> code. It was designed for qt2 (or older), only small pieces of it were 
> then adapted to qt3, and it's believed to be in a real bad state, as it 
> has been unmaintained for a quite long time.
> 
> As soon as someone comes up with some work on the code and posts a patch 
> (either here or in Bugzilla), I'll make up a new mini-branch and check 
> the files in there. That way we're probably able to build up something 
> working again.
> For patches, I'd prefer to have then in Bugzilla, just create new bugs 
> for all steps that have to be made. We can file a tracker bug for the 
> new branch as well...
> 
> Robert Kaiser

Can we make a list of specific bugs to file and then we can decide who 
gets assigned to what?

Aditya