[Development] Mime database size

Cristian Adam cristian.adam at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 08:35:18 CET 2015


On Feb 24, 2015 8:06 AM, "Adam Majer" <adamm at zombino.com> wrote:
>
> By rewrite, he meant *port to*. So, you don't have to rewrite
> anything, "just" port it to the API that is available on a given
> platform. By porting it to Qt, then it would be automatically
> available everywhere that Qt is available.
>
> If the utility was not free open source, you would have to rewrite the
> entire utility from scratch instead of "just" porting it.
>
> - Adam

Yes, that's what I've meant.

Qt should have a tool (clang based?) to help port from GTK+ to Qt.

In the old days there were such a tool (obviously not clang based) for
porting from MFC to Qt.

Projects like Lxde would have been ported faster :)

Cheers,
Cristian.
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