[Development] Future of QtOpenCL

[Laszlo Papp]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Sebastian Lehmann <qt at leemes.de> wrote:

> Hello Qt developers,
>
> I'm sadly noting that the QtOpenCL project [1] is dead since end 2010,
> yet it's still
> usable. I want to bring this module back to life. Currently, the
> module has a couple of
> issues such as const-correctness and missing support for Qt5.
>
> I see two options with that: Either rewriting the whole module with a
> new design, or
> improving the existing code base.
>
> Also, I'd love to have some basic, generic and reusable algorithms
> implemented in OpenCL
> and available with an interface similar to QtConcurrent. This could be
> in a separate
> module. I have some nice ideas for the design of this.
>
> Some people say that there's no big advantage in having a QtOpenCL
> module, as everything
> can also be done with CL library function calls.


It is good to have a choice, at least!


> But both the
> advantage of RAII as well
> as having a Qt'ish interface are a huge help when writing applications
> with a lot of
> GPGPU computations, as the raw CL functions are way too painful to
> write (and read).
>
> How's your opinion about bringing QtOpenCL back to life (especially in
> Qt5)? Any concrete
> ideas or suggestions?
>

+1

Disclaimer: I am not a maintainer, but I was also thinking of contributing
1-2 patches in that area. There were always other toys to play with though.
;-)

I am sure, Sean for instance will support such a playground project as a
(Qt3D) maintainer.


> Anyone out there who wants to help? How is the typical "workflow" for
> new modules in Qt5?
>

http://qt-project.org/wiki/Creating-a-new-module-or-tool-for-Qt

Many thanks,
Laszlo
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