Qt/KDE Netscape -- An estimate of Work! (fwd)

[Frank van de Pol <F K W van de Pol inter nl net>]

For those interested: I found next article on the qt mailing list.

Frank.



John McNulty wrote:
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> All,
> 
> I'm sure after Netscape's source code announcement, a number of 
> people (like me) must have wondered about the possibility of a
> port to KDE and/or Qt.  So I asked one of the Netscape engineers
> for an opinion on this.  Below is the answer I got.
> 
> -----------Forwaded Message
> 
> > I'm not after a definitive answer here, just a finger in the air 
> > guestimate.  How much work would it take, or how easy/hard do think
> > it would be, to port free Netscape to use Qt instead of Motif? 
> > 
> 
> 1. The GUI frontend is clearly seperated from the rest of the browser
>    by a well defined API (which all 3 frontends - MFC, Mac, Motif -
>    use).
> 
> 2. There are about 50 widgets ( ls *.c | wc -l) that are Netscape
>    specific, which'll have to be ported.
> 
> 3. The GUI itself is composed of around 160 C++ files, which
>    instantiate these widgets.
> 
> Depending on the number of people working on it, it could take
> anywhere between 2 months to an year. Of course, stripped down
> versions are possible in a shorter period of time.
> 
> -----------Forwaded Message
> 
> So if anyone put there is thinking about this, you can use
> this as a guideline to figure out how much work is involved.
> 
> John
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