On Sunday 30 June 2013 10:47:54 am Slávek Banko wrote:
> On Monday 10 of June 2013 09:18:15 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > You can try using the automated conversion script here:
> > http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/experimental/tree/qt3-tqt3/convert_e
> >xisting_qt3_app_to_tqt3
> >
> > Be warned that it takes a LOT of CPU time to run, and that the result
> > probably won't compile the first time around.  However, it will deal
> > with 99% of the tedious renaming without intervention.
> >
> > You then need to take into account the more recent TDE header file and
> > class name changes.  Unfortunately, I do not have a script to
> > automatically convert a project to use the new TDE class names and
> > header files, so you would need to make those changes by hand or via
> > your own scripts.
> >
> > How I typically handle import of a new application is I first commit
> > the last known working version of the application from the original
> > source (i.e. the original project website) to a new GIT repository.  I
> > then apply and commit all changes needed to get it building on Qt3 with
> > TDE 3.5.13.x, then finally run the autoconversion tools and commit the
> > first working version for TDE R14.  This keeps the original versions
> > around in the GIT history in case something broke during build fixes
> > and/or R14 conversion and is not noticed until far in the future (this
> > has happened many times before!)
> >
> > Tim
>
> Because my home machine is pretty slow, I noticed a high demands of
> script. On one smaller test project ran over 24 minutes.
>
> I've done in this script some optimizations:
>
> 1) Instead of starting sed using "find -exec sed" I used the "find | xargs
> sed". With xargs not run sed for each file, but one sed for multiple
> files.
>
> 2) Instead of starting sed for each replacement I'm using "-e" amassed
> more replacements to the single sed.
>
> After this optimizations on the same small test project I'm got the same
> result in 2.5 minutes. Updated script pushed to git in hash 5fc3ba9a.
>
> Slavek

+1!  Teamwork, it's great!

Andy