[SailfishDevel] Announcing "Mono for Sailfish"

[Bob Summerwill]

CC Damien and Dimitar.

Right - thanks for the context.   Best wishes!


Cheers,
Bob


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Attila Csipa <qt at csipa.in.rs> wrote:

>  Hey2,
>
> I've been playing with this myself a bit, but have not gotten too far,
> summer weather, travels and all. What Ville is suggesting is exactly what
> I'm after - not a full binding set, but just a UI bridge. In API rich
> environments like python/.net/etc the "application framework" API parts of
> Qt don't mean much (and their existence/quality varies depending on
> platform anyway). Mono (and even Xamarin) falls a bit short on the UI side,
> and a good QML/QtQuick bridge would help a whole lot. And before someone
> gets the wrong idea - this is still not about having a single QML codebase,
> but rather having a "common language" for UIs powered by whatever is the
> best tech choice on the given platform (QtQuick, Silica, QML components
> wrapping native APIs, you name it).
>
> Best regards
> Attila Csipa
>
>
> On 8/22/2014 11:12 AM, Ville M. Vainio wrote:
>
>    Hey,
>
>  We discussed this on twitter already, but here we go in >140 characters
> as well ;-).
>
>  Making it possible to create QML applications with Mono would be
> interesting on every platform, not merely Sailfish. Think Android, iOS,
> desktop. Xamarin costs nontrivial amount of money, so QML + Mono would be a
> free alternative to that (with somewhat limited capabilities of course).,
>
>  Better path than QtSharp would be just creating a QML bridge to Mono,
> i.e. instantiate a QML runtime and make Mono talk with it. Example for this
> architecture is PyOtherside (http://thp.io/2011/pyotherside/)
>
>  Sufficient api would be:
>
>  - register Mono functions to be callable from QML javascript
>
>  Analogue: http://pyotherside.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#call
>
> - receive "signals" (free form objects) from Mono side
>
> Analogue:  http://pyotherside.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#received
>
>  Another example (though a lot larger) is golang-qml binding:
> http://godoc.org/gopkg.in/qml.v1
>
>  Mechanically exposing large parts of Qt's C++ api (including QML engine)
> like sip, pyside et al are doing is probably going to yield lots of
> unuseful code, where developers only need 2% subset, but you will pay the
> price of the bloat and complexity anyway (troubles with PySide are a good
> example of this). Therefore I think QtSharp is suboptimal approach.
>
>  Obviously I don't want to act as stop energy, but "look before you leap"
> so to say.
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Bob Summerwill <bob at summerwill.net>
> wrote:
>
>>  See
>> http://www.mobilelinuxnews.com/2014/08/introduction-mono-sailfish-os-jolla/
>> .
>>
>>  I'm happy to announce that development on Mono for Sailfish is underway
>> (http://monoforsailfish.com).    This is a continuation of MonoTizen (
>> http://monotizen.com), on which development has been suspended because
>> the Tizen project is broken (see
>> http://kitsilanosoftware.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/the-tizen-project-is-broken-we-will-be-spending-some-time-apart-3/
>> ).
>>
>>  Dimitar Dobrev, the author of https://github.com/ddobrev/QtSharp has
>> been upstreaming bug-fixes (and addressing newly discovered issues in) to
>> http://github.com/mono/CppSharp.    He'll be building the bindings, and
>> will probably end up doing the Mono Runtime port as well, based on the
>> fantastic job which Damien Diederen did for the Tizen Mono Runtime.
>>
>>
>>  Cheers,
>> Bob Summerwill, Kitsilano Software
>> http://twitter.com/bobsummerwill
>> http://bobsummerwill.com | http://kitsilanosoftware.com |
>> http://monoforsailfish.com
>>
>>  --
>> bob at summerwill.net
>>
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