Do you have a good idea? Do you know the Qt library? Would you like to be awarded for that?

The INdT (Nokia Technology Institute), nowadays one of the main development excellence centers in Brazil, promotes the first Qt/openBossa challenge.

We look for developers capable of putting your ideas into practice and build Qt applications designed to Nokia’s mobile devices. Participants will create innovations which will be evaluated and awarded during the 10th International Free Software Forum (FISL).

More at http://openbossa.org/fisl/index.html.

For the sake of coding-style-importance-aware people, there are many great projects such as GNU indent, pep8 and astyle that perform all the work for you, whose only need the appropriate setup flags.

For Qt projects, astyle is the recommended tool. But there are a few drawbacks on using it.

• it’s too intrusive. astyle performs code modification in-line, disturbing the repository sources instead of serving as a verification tool only
• weak didactic factor. Unlike pep8 script, which tells the developer exactly what the problem is and contributes to avoid it at the future (as a lesson learned effect)
• it’s output can not be easily integrated with another tools

I’ve created a shell script in order to overcome some of the previous issues. It’s available here. Some relevant features.

• quickfix-style list output
• QTest style output at the end
• Ignore moc created files
• All suggested modifications can be applied as one patch, directly available to the user
• Can be run inside a testsuite (make test) or as a standalone program

TODO

• try to extend astyle classes
• allow alternative code styles
• better source selection schema (integrated with qmake, maybe?)
• fix-up improper indentation on some important macros (foreach, .e.g.)
• test and make it work on MacOS