[Qt-interest] What is likely to be in Qt 4.8?

[Jason H]

I'm not that disappointed. I think modularization would really help over a 
monolithic Qt release. Qt covers so many more technologies than it ever has.

That being said, I am surprised that you're making Qt SPARQLy when XQuery update 
support seems more useful? QDom supposedly has been on its way out for some 
time?

I'm curious what will replace the FileEngine stuff? I've done some cool things 
with it.

Thanks.




----- Original Message ----
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 2:08:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] What is likely to be in Qt 4.8?

Em terça-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2011, às 10:55:18, Jason H escreveu:
> All Nokia/WP7 conjecture aside, what is in 4.8? I have observed that about
> every 9 months we have a .x release. With 5 months down, I'm wondering what
> is slated to be in 4.8? I've seen the laundry list at
> http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-roadmap/ However the list seems to have
> changed. There was a Metadata and REST listed. This seems to have
> disappeared.

4.8 features are going to be slightly underwhelming compared to previous 
releases.

The two big reasons are:

1) 4.8 development priority was under that of Modularisation and Open 
Governance. So instead of working on new features, people are working on these 
things.

2) Lots of development work is going outside of the "traditional" Qt, like the 
Qt Components and QtWebKit projects being in completely separate repositories 
and have their own schedules from now on.

> A couple sources have suggested:
> 3D
> SceneGraph
> LightHouse

3D is scheduled as a new module. Lighthouse is in. Scene Graph is not 
targetted for this release and would probably be a new module as well.

Others:
Modularisation
File I/O rewrite (deprecating the file engine support)
Socket I/O rewrite for Symbian

And other increasingly minor things. There's also a lot of work still being 
done that may be in if it's ready in time.

> A personal wish list is:
> Android & iOS support
> SOAP.
> JSON.

Android is likely, we need to work with BogDan. We also need Open Governance 
in place for him to maintain the port.

iOS is unlikely as it's nowhere near as complete.

SOAP is "no way in hell".

JSON is on my list for new modules, by importing the community QJson.

We're also working on a new module called QtSparql (for SPARQL queries, 
similar to SQL).
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