[Development] Porting tools session at Qt CS

[Stephen Kelly]

Hi there,

At Qt CS I hosted a session about the clang based tooling I wrote to automate 
the boring parts of porting from Qt4+Qt3Support to Qt5.

http://www.kdab.com/automated-porting-from-qt-4-to-qt-5/

We discussed:

* The scope and limitations of the tool 
  - Works best for boring stuff, not something that requires complex porting 
    because for example, entirely different APIs have to be used in some cases 
    when methods get deprecated.
* How the tool works 
  - I showed and explained the code and the result after running it in 
    kdelibs.
* Whether anyone else is interested in using or contributing to it 
  - At least Ben Meyer was interested in trying it out and contributing a few 
    patches. 
* Where it should live 
  - As it depends on non-public API of clang, the clang source tree is a good 
    candidate, however, that may inconvenient for many Qt contributors. There 
    is a possibility of getting some or most of it into clang itself 
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/22253/focus=22261) 
    where a contributor community for simliar refactoring fragments is 
    starting to emerge. The Qt-Creator repo, which might also introduce a 
    clang dependency could also be a candidate.
* How it should be used 
  - It has potentially long term use-cases for KDAB at least as we'll be doing 
    ports from Qt 3 and 4 to 5 for some time, but also could be used to help 
    porting away from API deprecated in Qt 5.x potentially.

Feel free to ask anything else about the tooling here.

Thanks,

-- 
Stephen Kelly <stephen.kelly at kdab.com> | Software Engineer
KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co.KG, a KDAB Group Company
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