Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:15:04 -0400 From: Subject: [VOICENWS] General: Update 7 from OS/2 VOICE/BWW QT/browser funding campaign ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice dot org ++ From: roderickkleinDESPAM at DESPAMxs4all.nl Dear OS/2 community, It has been about 6 months ago since the Dutch OS/2 VOICE foundation (referred as “VOICE”) send out a status update about the funding campaign to support bww bitwise works GmbH (referred as "bitwise") company. Bitwise has are working on porting the latest version of the QT platform to OS/2. The reason you have not heard anything from VOICE is because I had some medical issue's. I am recovering and slowly picking up on some OS/2 stuff again, such as Warpstock Europe that will be held in Utrecht in de The Netherlands on the 18 and 19th of May. For more information please visit http://www.warpstock.eu. Bitwise has however not stopped working on the QT project and a lot of progress has been made. Please check this old posting for the roadmap that was published jointly by VOICE and Bitwise http://articles.os2voice dot org/category/voice/17-new-web-browser-for-os-2-roadmap-update-4.html. Currently Dmitriy Kuminov, the developer from Bitwise is working one of the most important DLL's. This is the QT DLL that provides the graphics in applications. Of the QT port about 60 to 70% of the project is finished now. The QT test suite has also been used to make certain the QT port works correctly. You can read more about it here. This was posted on the 31st of December 2018: "The debug build passes 68572 tests (with only 2 failures as well, for the same reason). This is quite a number. Apparently, Qt5 is going to be the best Qt for OS/2 port ever." In some cases however work is not performed directly on the QT project itsekf. Like with the previous big project Bitwise worked on, such as the Firefox browser, updates where made to many libraries to make it possible to deliver Firefox on ArcaOS/OS/2. All the Linux software ported to ArcaOS/OS/2 use a couple of core DLL's. One of these sets of DLL's are called LIBC. In order to make QT work updates had to be made to the LIBC DLlL's. You can read more on the details here. So your donation is put to good use! You can see how much money is donated here: https://www.bitwiseworks dot com/. We are currently at about 22.000 Euro. We need your help as a community to make this import port of Bitwise move forward. All source code is provided free of charge to the world and is always checked in here https://github dot com/bitwiseworks/qtbase-os2. Bitwise works counts on YOUR donations to make this happen. You can read here how you can donate money to Bitwise here: http://www.os2voice dot org/membership.html. A lot of people in the community download software from the Netlabs server without fully releasing a lot of that work is being performed by Bitwise. So please continue to donate! Another new way to sponsor Bitwise monthly is by using Patreon https://www.patreon dot com/bwwbitwiseworks. Each month you donate an amount, you decide. This is a statement that was jointly written by the Dutch OS/2 VOICE foundation and bww bitwise works GmbH. Best regards, Roderick Klein & The "bitwise" team Dutch OS/2 VOICE foundation Silvan, Herwig and Dmitriy -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it. To submit news to this list please use the submission form at http://www.os2voice dot org/SubmitNews.html or send an email to "submit at os2voice dot org" To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice dot org unsubscribe news end ]