[Freeciv-Dev] Re: KCiv?

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:34, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Tuesday August 07, 2001 11:46, Mika Korhonen wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Timothy R.Butler wrote:
> > >  I was wondering if the FreeCIV developers have though about
> > > offering a KDE/QT port to compliment the GTK version? It would be
> > > great to have such a port, and that would mean that FreeCIV could
> > > also easily offer a QT/Embedded version...
> >
> > This was suggested some time (a year or two) ago. IIRC the reason
> > not to use Qt (and include Qt client) was that it is C++ while
> > Freeciv is plain C which is more portable. The main point was the
> > portability.
> >
> > Yeah, Qt would be the programmer-friendly approach :-) and I guess
> > nobody would object if one wrote the Qt client (at least separate,
> > outside the official Freeciv).
>
> Well, I was hoping to do one with someone, when I asked about it a
> while back.  My partner backed out, though, so the idea died.  I
> decided the Freeciv client's too big for me to commit to porting it
> by myself.
>
> As for C++, C/C++ issues didn't stop a BeOS client from being put
> into CVS.  And Qt probably compiles on more compilers and platforms
> than Freeciv itself does.

The argument that was brought up against a QT client the last time this 
came up was that it would too much trouble to maintain (more copies of 
client code always adds some initia), and that the KDe users could just 
use the gtk client.

Now if somebody wanted to make a SDL client... :)

-Thue