Twinkle, my favourite SIP client, seems no longer developed, has been accused of "bitrotting" and even dropped from some distributions. While I don't believe in bits actually rotting, there is one pressing issue: twinkle uses Qt3.
While there are some patches reportedly allowing to build twinkle with Qt4, e.g. here, all seem to use a Qt3 compatibility layer of Qt4 which has been dropped in Qt5, AFAIK, so that those won't be very future-proof either.
The goal is to replace uses of obsolete Qt3 API and replace them with native Qt5 features so that twinkle can survive few more years.
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Hack Week 12
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over 10 years ago by mkubecek | Reply
End-of-hackweek status: twinkle now builds against Qt4 (but only with KDE support disabled for now), can be started, make a call, hang up and quit without crashing (and some more things, of course). What works:
- cleaned up some mess in the build system
- converted 5 out of 25 forms to native Qt4 classes
- fixed a few bugs found on the way (that weren't seen with Qt3)
What does not:
- most forms still use Qt3Support compatibility module
- once these are converted, try building against Qt5
- only builds with --without-kde for now
- "UI locking" model is broken; removed most broken parts, still a lot to do
- more cleanup definitely needed
- no work on IPv6 support yet
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almost 10 years ago by mkubecek | Reply
An update: few months after the hackweek, I was contacted by Luboš Doležel who offered help. In a few days, he was able to finish the conversion, reworked the build system and implemented some more improvements.
A new version 1.9.0 has been released in July 2015 and is available in Tumbleweed and Leap 42.1 (13.1 and 13.2 packages can be found in home:mkubecek:fun OBS project
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