[Development] Perceptions/Understandings of the QML language [was: Question about Qt's future]

[md at rpzdesign.com]

After 10 years, time to refactor to
organize the stack.

md

On 4/28/2014 6:02 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em seg 28 abr 2014, às 23:34:21, André Pönitz escreveu:
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:12:47AM -0700, Alan Alpert wrote:
>>> Yes, I agree that more rigorous and agreed definitions would be
>>> helpful. It also takes time, and impedes innovation, so I'm not sure
>>> if we're quite mature enough to "nail down" QML just yet. Should be
>>> soon though, in the next few years.
>>
>> To get this straight: After five years of development the "Maintainer" of
>> the Qt Declarative module is neither able nor willing to give a simple
>> definition of what "QML" is.
> 
> I can't also explain very well what QtCore is and it has existed for 10 years 
> now.
> 
> It's the low-level interface to the OS and basic and tool classes, plus a part 
> of the XML support, but not all of it. And the item models. And the state 
> machine. Oh, and a few more tidbits that ended up in QtCore because they are 
> not really graphical in nature.
> 
> So is QtCore the kitchen sink?
>