[Development] Resurrecting QtGamepad

[Andy Nichols]

Hi Arno,

Indeed if you pull the latest from qt/qtgamepad from gerrit (dev) it should work with 6.10 (dev).  Also I guess technically it still would be possible to have it officially in 6.10+, but the module freeze is on Friday of this week if the wiki is up to date.  I’m also not entirely sure what the process is for adding a new module to Qt (or in this case re-adding).

If someone could chime in the practicalities of doing this (or a rebuttal/refusal) I could help get this ball rolling again.

Regards,
Andy Nichols

From: Arno Rehn <a.rehn at menlosystems.com>
Date: Monday, 12 May 2025 at 12:28
To: Andy Nichols <Andy.Nichols at qt.io>, Liang Qi <cavendish.qi at gmail.com>
Cc: development at qt-project.org <development at qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Development] Resurrecting QtGamepad
Hi Andy,

On 12.05.2025 12:19, Andy Nichols wrote:
> I’m a bit confused about what’s being proposed/discussed here.  We did
> revive QtGamepad, in so far as we integrated the changes I proposed a
> couple of years ago.  That includes a module for recreating 95% of the
> same API that was in QtGamepad in Qt 5.x, as well as many additional
> features that have been requested during the lifetime of QtGamepad
> (support for all joystick-like controllers with a lower level API
> exposing buttons and axis’s etc).

I guess we're equally confused :-) I was under the impression that the
"new", revived QtGamepad was still in development and not yet
functional. If that it is not the case, all the better!

> However, the QtGamepad module is not
> part of Qt 6, so it doesn’t have access to the CI infrastructure so it
> can and does break.  I’m not sure what is being proposed then.  Why not
> just propose that the QtGamepad module be again included in qt5.git
> (qt6) and re-added to the CI/packaging infrastructure?
> So that is if we’re considering giving official status to a “legacy”
> port of the 5.15 version, I would rather us opt for just re-elevating
> qtgamepad as it stands in the official repo now and preparing that one
> for release as part of Qt 6.

If it works, yes! I'm all for it!

Cheers,
Arno

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