[Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

[Mark Summerfield]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:28:25 +0100
Richard Moore <rich at kde.org> wrote:
> On 16 August 2012 13:12, Mark Summerfield <list at qtrac.plus.com> wrote:
> > Hi Thiago,
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:07:08 +0200
> > Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> >> On quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 10.54.30, Mark Summerfield
> >> wrote:
> >> > - High-level support for client/server programming with the
> >> > middleware able to be straight TCP/IP (e.g., for LANs), OpenVPN,
> >> > etc.
> >>
> >> More info, please. Do you mean raw sockets?
> >
> > I think the middleware should certainly include raw sockets as an
> > option but I suppose one model is where you do signal/slot connections
> > between a client app and a server app and Qt takes care of the middle
> > bit either using TCP/IP or some other sensible default or using a
> > technology that the developer specifies.
> 
> To be sure we're not at cross purposes, it sounds to me like you
> aren't talking about raw sockets as in SOCK_RAW. Are you simply
> talking about the ability to perform distributed IPC using signals and
> slots?

Essentially yes. Or rather RPC since I think Qt should make it easy to
write client/server applications.


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