Opie Development

Hey all,

I suppose there might be a more appropriate site to ask this on, but I thought I'd ask the community here first.
I'd like to get into some coding for Opie (specifically for my Z72, not that it matters a whole lot), but I'm having issues finding any clear information on it - most of what I find is just scattered mailing list posts. Essentially, my questions are as follows:
1) How easy (in general) would it be to port an app made for the current version of Opie over to QT/E 4.x if/when Opie 2 comes out? I haven't done much coding on Linux (although I do have other experience), so I don't know what the situation is, and I'd hate to have to rewrite half of an app in the future
2) Assuming I was to code it for the current version of Opie / QT/E, what would I need for a basic setup? I noticed that KDevelop has Opie templates, but I thought I heard somewhere that an older version of the IDE was necessary, due to QT/E versioning. I can get all the general build requirements set up just fine - I was wondering about anything specifically needed for this.
3) Just to clarify, because QT/E is dual-licensed, my understanding is that it's okay to link it in a program that also links GPL'd code as long as the programs I use it in are GPL'd (thus being able to license QT/E under the GPL option). Is that correct?

thanks

1. Very hard/impossible.

1. Very hard/impossible. Qtopia Core is very different from QT-Embedded 2.
2. Sorry, no ideas, never coded in kdevelop. IIRC, Opie has its own build system that you have to use anyway.
3. Your code should be GPL-2. And nothing else matters ;)

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