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

[Agustin Benito Bethencourt]

Hi,


On 15/06/16 06:47, Tuukka Turunen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Upstream meta-qt5 is used to the extent possible and all changes to it
> are actively pushed upstream. However, we want to use the latest Qt,
> thus minor modifications. Intention is not to fork meta-qt5. What we
> have should be considered rather a mirror.
>
> We are working with the meta-qt5 maintainers and contributing to it. We
> have actually even offered to make meta-qt5 an official part of the Qt
> Project. Currently it is still in github, but perhaps some day it can
> move under the Qt Project.
>
> PS. I am not a member of genivi lists, please forward the message if it
> is blocked.

forwarded

>
> Yours,
>
>                  Tuukka
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Lähettäjä: Stephen Lawrence <mailto:stephen.lawrence at renesas.com>
> Lähetetty: ‎15.‎6.‎2016 0:23
> Vastaanottaja: phongtran <mailto:tranmanphong at gmail.com>
> Kopio: automotive-discussions at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> <mailto:automotive-discussions at lists.linuxfoundation.org>;
> genivi-projects at lists.genivi.org
> <mailto:genivi-projects at lists.genivi.org>; automotive at qt-project.org
> <mailto:automotive at qt-project.org>
> Aihe: Re: [Automotive] [agl-discussions] Introduce Qt IVI layer
> (meta-qt5-ivi)
>
> Hi Phong,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: automotive-discussions-bounces at lists.linuxfoundation.org
>> [mailto:automotive-discussions-bounces at lists.linuxfoundation.org] On
>> 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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Agustin Benito Bethencourt
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