[Qt-creator] Creator stability

[Victor Sardina]

Frank:

I agree with most of what you wrote. I have used the master branch to 
build Creator from source for a while now, and have to regrets in that 
regard. Yes, sometimes that have forced me to revamp my Qt installation, 
but at the end nothing I wouldn't have ended up doing sooner or later. 
QML? I looked into it, but found very little documentation, or actual 
examples of how that would help me create a useful GUI (I know the 
concept, but not how to apply that to my needs). I don't want anyone to 
take the previous statement as a critic. Everyone posting here probably 
have different needs, programming habits (and vices), and even preferred 
tools.

Nobody can keep everybody happy 100% of the time. You try that and will 
certainly sink sooner than later. I would actually take some comments as 
what I call "appraisals in disguise", as they indicate that people with 
a very wide range of interests, views, needs, and habits, have started 
to regard Creator as a tool they want to use, or that they have to de 
facto consider the new kid in the block. I remember a while back that 
when git first came out it cause something similar...I think that people 
should perhaps have a little more patience, and let the team do its 
work: everything looks simpler from the outside.

When I have posted a question, a bug, or reported something weird going 
on, I have always received an answer in a very timely manner, either 
from the Trolls themselves, or some of the users in the community who 
have taken pity of my ignorance: thank you.

Victor

Frank Siegert wrote:
> André Pönitz, Thursday 25 March 2010:
>   
>> There is no promise (and never has been) that Creator master branch
>> works (including even the weirdest definitions of "works"...)
>>
>> If you want something that is known to compile, use a released version.
>>
>> We are happy about anybody actually using master and notifying us about
>> any breakage but there's no guarantee whatsoever that it does anything
>> useful. We are doing our best to fix breakages quickly, though, and so
>> far I had the impression that readers of this list and people on IRC
>> find this concept both comprehensible and acceptable.
>>     
>
> As a completely external user, I would like to support Andre's statement 
> here. I have for several periods been using master and found it incredibly 
> stable in comparison to all other projects' master/trunk/HEAD/... I have 
> used so far.
>
> Furthermore I am hugely impressed by the quick turn-around time on 
> bugfixes, feature implementations and also mailing list replies!
> (if you ignore the occasional "Nokia(!) should fix my favorite bug right 
> now" mail from external users, who rightfully have been pointed to the 
> open model of Creator development).
>
> I have to admit though, that I am not using anything related to QML.
>
> Thanks all for providing such a nice product in such an open way!
> Frank
>
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