[bt-devel] coordinating the porting work

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Hi Martin and Benjie.

I have been in irc but not at the same time as you since we all where
there. We chatted then with Benjie, I helped him to start the work. He
took some files in frontend/mainindex under work but has not commited
anything. Benjie, have you been stuck?

Martin commited changes into kchooser. I was working on that earlier but
have been a bit busy with other things lately. We haven't talked about
what we are doing, maybe it would be good.

I just thought that it was easy to continue in one subdirectory
(keychooser) because the files were quite similar. Also the classes
were interdependent on each other. Therefore I would like to continue
with that unless there's something which needs modifications to help
others' work.

I have done clean porting and Benjie also liked to remove qt3
compatibility dependencies. There are some difficulties with that like
Q3PtrList -> QList<X*> where you have to modify looping algorithms or
QListView which has to be changed to some model/view classes. Also
this can cause problems when the whole code compiles, there
probably will be some extra logical errors. Still I feel better with
clean code.

As we have seen there are some compilations errors due to the lack of
the qt3-support compiler flag. Knowing how I work I don't need it but if
we want the whole code to compile before all is ported it's necessary.
Personally I just compile one file at a time and don't care about some
error messages.

  Yours,
	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)