[Interest] Interest Digest Wiki instructions for PI cross compile do not work for PostgreSQL support

Thu Oct 19 14:43:09 CEST 2017

Scroll down and watch the video. QML is an 800 lb gorilla trying to ride 
in a 2 cylinder car.

http://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/raspberry-qt-part-12-qml-blows-big-stinky-chunks/

Nasty worthless resource pig which exists only to pursue script kiddies.

On 10/19/2017 04:38 AM, Vlad Stelmahovsky wrote:
> QML is not that resource hogging as JS. dont use JS and you'll be fine
>
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Roland Hughes 
> <roland at logikalsolutions.com <mailto:roland at logikalsolutions.com>> wrote:
>
>
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>     On 10/17/2017 12:54 PM, interest-request at qt-project.org
>     <mailto:interest-request at qt-project.org> wrote:
>>     On ter?a-feira, 17 de outubro de 2017 08:11:13 PDT Roland Hughes
>>     wrote:
>>>>     The bug tracking system is under our control - it will not just
>>>>     disappear (from our perspective).
>>>     Oh yes it will!
>>>
>>>     Speaking as someone who has heard that soooooo many times before, let's
>>>     just count a few for Qt shall we.
>>>
>>>     The Trolltech bug database was never going to just disappear (from our
>>>     perspective). It did. A tiny fraction of the bugs migrated to the new
>>>     system but most were mass exterminated with
>>     The TT TT was not a public database. It existed internally only. When we
>>     switched to a public bugtracker, we could only export some entries since many
>>     had confidential customer information. Those that were exported had to be
>>     review by a person to make sure we were not violation any NDAs or
>>     confidentiality.
>>
>>     That's the same reason why the code repository starts with Qt 4.5, not earlier
>>     versions.
>>
>>>     "The version this bug is reported against is no longer supported..."
>>>
>>>     The Nokia bug tracker was never going to just disappear (from our
>>>     perspective). It did. Few, if any of the older bugs made it into the
>>>     current database. Most were mass exterminated with
>>     There was no Nokia database. We switched straight from the internal tdb
>>     (that's what it was called) to JIRA.
>     There was a Nokia bug base as well, at least for a while. I and
>     others entered bugs into it back in the day. Your argument also
>     re-enforces a great many bugs "simply disappeared."
>>>     I hear from quite a few companies in similar boats. They started
>>>     development for a medical/industrial device which had a lengthy
>>>     testing/approval process, filed bug reports for that version only to see
>>>     them rot or fall victim to a mass extermination.
>>     Most open source projects don't support old versions, since they don't have
>>     the manpower to do so.
>>
>>>     The current owners of Qt and the current OpenSource maintainers don't
>>>     offer or seem to understand the concept of an LTS (Long Term Support)
>>>     version. They are constantly pursuing script kiddies and that worthless
>>>     QML instead of maintaining the base which built them. This will soon
>>>     force a fork in the OpenSource project. One which rips out all of the
>>>     QML and focuses on nothing but bug fixes for 12 years. Yes, 12 years.
>>     Again, offence taken.
>     Take all of the offense you want. Medical devices and industrial
>     controls need LTS versions, not resource hogging QML features.
>     Qt's chasing of the idiot phone market which has 6 months at best
>     life spans is alienating and chasing away the very industries
>     which made Qt successful.
>>     I don't know who plans on forking. There's no such division in the community,
>>     so any attempt to do so will probably start with very few developers. Almost
>>     certainly, fewer than critical mass to maintain the codebase.
>>
>>     See TQt (Trinity Project) for an example of a fork attempt.
>     It's easy to fork something you have been maintaining internally
>     for years. There _IS_ such a division. You don't know about it
>     because they don't come here. They justifiably believe they've
>     been abandoned. The relentless pursuit of "new cool features" to
>     please the phone crowd is causing the much larger medical device
>     and industrial control industries to create their own LTS.
>
>     How many questions have you seen on here over the past 18 months
>     about Qt 3? That project Harmman (sp?) calls about periodically
>     sells north of a million units per year and the company is
>     maintaining Qt 3 on its own so they can make minor product
>     enhancements which don't have to go though multi-year clinical
>     trials. They aren't the only calls I get about products using Qt
>     3, 4.2, and the most likely soon to be orphaned (if not already)
>     4.8. Every company I am contacted about using earlier versions has
>     their own staff maintaining the code base today. They have had no
>     other choice. If anything, joining forces with someone who is not
>     a competitor but using the same tool set will lighten their load.
>
>     -- 
>     Roland Hughes, President
>     Logikal Solutions
>     (630)-205-1593
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> Vlad

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