[Automotive] [agl-discussions] Introduce Qt IVI layer (meta-qt5-ivi)

Changhyeok Bae changhyeok.bae at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 19:20:23 CEST 2016


If you agree, +1 Stephen's opinion.

2016-06-15 1:27 GMT+09:00 Stephen Lawrence <stephen.lawrence at renesas.com>:

> Hi Phong,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Behalf Of phongtran
> > Sent: 14 June 2016 14:36
> > To: automotive-discussions at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> > Cc: genivi-projects at lists.genivi.org; automotive at qt-project.org
> > Subject: [agl-discussions] Introduce Qt IVI layer (meta-qt5-ivi)
> >
> > Hi ALL,
> >
> > I would like to share the meta-qt5-ivi which provides
> qtapplicationmanager,
> > qtivi and qt-apps-neptune-ui.
> >
> > The repo is on github here:
> > https://github.com/phongt/meta-qt5-ivi
> >
> > I applied this layer to AGL distro and It can start up QEMU x86-64 KVM
> > Ubuntu 14.04 host PC.
> >
> > Please refer README for detail:
> > https://github.com/phongt/meta-qt5-ivi/blob/dev/README
> >
> > I uploaded the images here:
> >
> > https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7oqqrcWpAYlZkx2NXFzcDB2Znc&
> > usp=sharing
> >
> > I attached some screenshoots of Neptune UI.
> >
> > Please review and give your feedbacks.
>
> Looks interesting. Thank you for sharing.
>
> One question from reading the Readme. I see it does not use the existing
> meta-qt5 layer [1].
> Whilst trying to avoid drawing you into politics could you summarise
> technically why your layer
> has its own base Qt 5 parts? From a quick look the two layers seem to have
> a somewhat different focus
> and you've provided recipes presumably for just what you need.
>
> I am not thinking so much about a feature by feature comparison but the
> practicalities about
> layer architecture and adoption. To give one example the Genivi
> Development Platform (GDP)
> uses [1] for the base Qt 5 parts for its Qt based HMI. So if say someone
> wanted to adopt your work
> into GDP the question arises as to how best to do that. Adopting your Qt5
> layer instead for the base Qt5
> raises questions of maintenance going forward and whether all requirements
> are met, whilst just adopting
> the apps/HMI (I realise I am probably simplifying there) means masking out
> parts for it to work on [1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/meta-qt5/meta-qt5
>
> Regards
>
> Steve
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