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WANT TO HELP QCAD

Asked by Uditha Bandara

I AM A BUILDING CONSTRUCTION QUANTITY SURVEY & ENGINEERING STUDENT AND THE MAIN PACKAGE I USE IN UBUNTU IS "QCAD" AND LOVE TO KNOW WEATHER IT IS A LIVE PROJECT AND HOW TO HELP IT TO DEVELOP MORE.

NOTE: I AM A FULL TIME DEDICATED UBUNTU LINUX USER WHOM PROMOTING UBUNTU FOR EVERY ONE TO USE AND ITS FREEDOMS. AND ONCE TRIED TO PROMOTE UBUNTU FOR GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AS WELL WHICH I GOT MY TRAINING. BUT FAILED BECAUSE OF SAME CAD PROBLEM :( SO TRYING IT AGAIN IN PRIVATE ENGINEERING FIRM WHICH MY FATHER WORKS :) AT THIS MOMENT

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

The open source version of qcad has had little work on it in quite a while. Ribbonsoft (makers of qcad) have a proprietary version that is claimed to do more.

So, you are of course welcome to modify qcad as you see fit -- if you are familiar with C++, and spend a little time getting up to date with QT (the windowing toolkit), then you should be able to modify qcad as you like. Many software projects are built around very small (1-4 people) teams, each working on individual projects; qcad itself was mostly written by one person.

There has not been a new qcad version released for several years,
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Qcad

If you want to rebuild qcad from the debian packages, you can simply do this:
http://www.moosechips.com/2008/09/ubuntu-rebuild-a-source-package/

To effectively be able to modify it you would need to know, or become familiar with the following things:
* C++
* make
* Some form of version control (hg/git/bazaar/svn/cvs/whatever).
* Command line
* Compiling with libaries
* QT

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