[SailfishDevel] When does Jolla give us an API?

Attila Csipa qt at csipa.in.rs
Mon Feb 10 10:39:57 UTC 2014


On 09/02/14 14:52, David Greaves wrote:
> On 09/02/14 11:28, Putze Sven wrote:
>> As pointed out from others, it's not simply done with the Qt documentation.
>> The Sailfish OS is built upon many libraries, frameworks and layers. But
>> which one is to use?
> Qt.
>
> Seriously. You asked for "an API". Jolla supports the Qt API precisely because
> it is a single, high level, app-suitable API that is well managed and open. It
> provides a significant degree of platform independence by abstracting a large
> amount of platform capability provided by those underlying layers; there is not
> much 'limited' about it :)

Even the list of Qt libs at 
https://github.com/sailfish-sdk/sdk-harbour-rpmvalidator/blob/master/allowed_libraries.conf 
is fairly skimpy. Skimpy to the point that even all the Qt essential 
modules are not covered. The fact that Qt itself is a bit, well, 
optimistic when it says " They are available on all supported 
development platforms and on the tested target platforms" is a different 
matter. With the loss and current slow rebuilding of the mobility 
functionally, feature-rich/low-level development is on the hard side. 
Back in the Harmattan days this was the exact reason why there was the 
QtSDK for the high-level app-developer and a Platform SDK for all the 
people who didn't mind their hands getting dirty and getting an 
incompatibility or two as things moved on.

Attila
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