Great. We can never have too many ports. :-)
>- qt or kde, personally I prefer qt - it has better docs and is more in
>line with what you have done (using gtk without gnome)
That makes sense. You may need to dynamically link against the qt libraries
to avoid any GPL problems. (I'm not up enough on the QT legal issues to
know whether a statically linked build would violate the GPL status of our
code.)
>- ifdefs or another branch, like the os branches. I think a branch is
>the way to go but you may disagree
I agree. It should be a peer branch of the other ports.
>- importantly, has anyone else already started this?
We're not aware of anyone.
>I have a feeling that the abisource site sucked last night due to the
>recent release of 0.7.0 but if the site is always so snailish then I
>may set up another cvs closer to me for the port code.
Usually we've got plenty of bandwidth to spare, but today we got absolutely
hammered by thousands of people downloading 0.7.0, and checking out the new
site. In the first 24 hours, we've served up over 4000 binaries and 700
source drops. Fortunately, it looks like the deluge is starting to taper
off a bit.
For most of the day, traffic was so heavy that we couldn't get out on the
web, and even our email queues got stalled. Rather than coding, we've
actually been scratching our heads today trying to make sure we've squeezed
every drop of bandwidth out of our T1 that we can.
If things don't get back to normal soon, we'll have to speed up our hosting
and mirroring plans. All this overwhelming attention is quite flattering,
but we'd like to get back to working on the product. :-)
Paul
motto -- I want my bandwidth back!