[Development] Resurrecting QtGamepad

[Liang Qi]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 10:40, Oswald Buddenhagen
<oswald.buddenhagen at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 10:33:27PM +0100, Arno Rehn wrote:
> >On 24.10.23 21:12, Arno Rehn wrote:
> >> On 22.10.23 20:57, Andy Nichols wrote:
> >>> Ideally if QtGamepad is reintroduced in Qt6 it would be with some
> >>> flavor of these changes rather than just being a strait port form Qt 5.
> >>
> >> Agreed. Maybe I'll just push my port to github then, renamed as
> >> qtgamepad-legacy or so.
> >
> >Pushed it here: https://github.com/pumphaus/qtgamepadlegacy
> >Renamed the whole thing to QtGamepadLegacy, so there should be no
> >compatibility issues with the "actual" QtGamepad when it is released.
> >
> from a qt project policy pov, nothing speaks against pushing it to the
> main repo as 6.x-legacy-api or some such. this would give it broader
> exposure, and it could get a proper review on gerrit.

There is not much activity since
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtgamepad/+/495313 , see
https://github.com/qt/qtgamepad/commits/dev/ .

+1 for pushing qtgamepadlegacy to 6.x-legacy-api, and it will get
broader exposure. Arno, thanks for your effort.

--Liang