QtD is suspended

Max Samukha spambox at d-coding.com
Sun Sep 26 10:04:43 PDT 2010


On 09/26/2010 05:36 PM, Emil Madsen wrote:
> Just curious about QtD, how far did the design process go in terms of %
> before it got suspended?
> 10% - 25% - 50%? - and what would the time approximations be to finish it?
>
> On 16 September 2010 16:22, Max Samukha <spambox at d-coding.com
> <mailto:spambox at d-coding.com>> wrote:
>
>     After a good amount of hesitation, we have decided to put the QtD
>     project on hold. QtD has a potential to become a complete and
>     effective development platform for D but it is not going to happen
>     soon (unless people with harder hearts take it over). We have spent
>     half of the day hunting yet another dmd bug-o-feature and that is
>     the last straw.
>
>     We offer our apologies to people who put their hope upon the
>     project. Please come back in a year or two when the language has a
>     stable compiler with the features fully specified, implemented and
>     debugged.
>
>
>
>
> --
> // Yours sincerely
> // Emil 'Skeen' Madsen

I guess it is about 67%. Basic stuff is in place, including 
cross-language virtual dispatch, partially meta-object system, 
signals/slots etc, but more advanced features like Q_PROPERTY are to be 
implemented. A couple of months (very roughly) before we have a stable 
and feature-compete version.


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