[Development] math3d in gui module

[Gunnar Sletta]

On 25 Mar 2014, at 03:22, Lorn Potter <lorn.potter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kurt,
> 
> On 22/03/2014 9:36 pm, Kurt Pattyn wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> is there any reason why math3d is in the QtGUI module on not in the QtCore module?
> 
> 
> I agree it should have been moved to QtCore.
> 
> As I remember the discussions, they involved use cases, and more people 
> thought the strongest use case was for use of UI elements...
> 
> Not to mention people at that time (Nokia) were incredibly busy with the 
> qt5 port and other things.

I think part of is was also that if you wanted a non-GUI related math library, there are plenty of more comprehensive libraries out there which Qt does not intend to compete with, such as Eigen. 

cheers,
Gunnar

> 
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> Lorn 'ljp' Potter
> Software Engineer, llornkcor technologies / Jolla
> Qt Sensors
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