[Psi-devel] Oh yeah

[Justin Karneges]

On Tuesday 27 March 2007 2:07 am, Kevin Smith wrote:
> On 27 Mar 2007, at 09:46, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 27. March 2007, lilliput Fab wrote:
> >> I also to thank the devel team for the quality of psi, because lets
> >> face it, it's really hard to crash Psi ;)
> >
> > I guess this fact and the fact that features are coming a bit more
> > slowly than
> > in some other clients are two sides of the same coin. :)
>
> It's true, but we're trying to see what we can do about this. We've
> now got five active Psi developers (Remko, Mblsha, Machekku,
> Textshell and me), which is more than we've ever had before, as well
> as Justin still working on the libraries. Between everyone, 0.11 is
> shaping up to be a great release, and things are looking good.
>
> I should also reassure people that we're just as keen to get 0.11 out
> and into the wild as everyone else is for us to do so.

I also want to add that the "transition to Qt 4" for everyone has been a 
massive effort.  It's not that hard to port from Qt 3 to Qt 4, but for 
whatever reason, projects are taking a long time in doing so.  Trolltech is 
almost up to 4.3, and I can't think of much Qt 4 software that has been 
released yet.  Even KDE 4 (for Qt 4) has been under development for years 
now, with no release.

Granted, there's more going on with Psi than just a port.  We've done a lot of 
refactoring and adding of new features.  KDE is doing the same.  Maybe 
there's something about API breakage that inspires everyone to go 
overboard. :)

-Justin