[Development] Resurrecting QtGamepad

[Arno Rehn]

On 07.05.2025 21:38, Liang Qi wrote:
> 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.

Cool, so just a new branch 6.x-legacy-api? Should the "x" follow Qt's 
minor release, so we'll have 6.9-legacy-api, 6.10-legacy-api, etc pp?

I guess it'll need the occasional adjustment to changed CMake API, so a 
completely static 6.x-legacy-api will likely not be possible.

Regards,
Arno

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