Re: Bug#638760: Removal of grace, pygrace and expeyes
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Jerome Kieffer wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 08:44:36 +0100
> Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> > Sounds like a worthy candidate for the Google Summer of Code.
>> >
>> Too late for the GSoC (deadline for students was last Friday) and I
>> don't think we would have
>> accepted this as a project.
>
> After having looked the conference of Dirk Hohndel on last
> linux.conf.au about the switch of his (together with Linus)
> application from GTK to Qt ... in a year
>
> This took them a year of work and they are much more skilled than most of us.
> Considering this could be done by a student over a summer is just unrealistic.
>
> Grace has its root in the late 80's it is C code (in which I am not
> especially fluent) Qt is C++ based. Moreover, Dirk noted some miss-fit
> of Qt with C ...
>
> So this is probably a great project but it will be difficult to
> motivate somebody skilled enough to do this work
It's a matter of switching font rasterizer libraries, not toolkits, so
this isn't as complex as you are thinking.
Best wishes,
Mike
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