[Development] Qt Playground - Updating Daemon/Service Support

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Nov 26 16:13:41 CET 2012


On segunda-feira, 26 de novembro de 2012 06.59.23, BRM wrote:
> I am following up to some e-mails I sent on the feedback/interests/dev
> lists[1] and blogs[2] over a year ago for updating the QtService Component.
> 
> 
> I would like to open a new Qt Playground project to create a new equivalent
> for Qt5 that is more natively integrated.
> 
> 
> Synopsis: QtService Component has not been updated since Qt 4.5. It is
> template based and has several drawbacks - (i) no signals/slots, and (ii)
> it hard terminates programs keeping them from being able to control
> shutdown or do cleanup during shutdown. I had proposed a new API to be in
> parallel to QCoreApplication/QApplication to support the daemon-service
> applications. Initial support will be equivalent of the current QtService
> component but using native classes instead of templates, and with a modular
> backend component that could later be used to add support for other service
> APIs - e.g. systemd - for seamless integration with different OS-level API
> for managing services.
> 
> Initial Goal is support for Qt5.

+1 from me.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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