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ravas

Aug 29, 2015; 10:12pm

github project summary

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Our current repo summary:
LibreCAD is a 2D CAD drawing tool based on the community edition of QCad (www.qcad.org).
LibreCAD has been re-structured and ported to Qt4/5 and works natively cross platform between OSX, Windows and Linux.

When I search github for "Qt" LibreCAD is not in the results.
It will be in the results for "Qt4"

I recommend something that will get us more hits.
For example:

LibreCAD is a 2D CAD program written in C++ and uses the Qt framework.
The code is based on the community edition of QCad (www.qcad.org).
LibreCAD has been re-structured and ported to Qt4 / Qt5
and works natively cross platform between OSX, Windows and Linux.

R. van Twisk

Aug 30, 2015; 8:30am

Re: github project summary

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On Aug 30, 2015, at 12:12 AM, ravas [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Our current repo summary:
LibreCAD is a 2D CAD drawing tool based on the community edition of QCad (www.qcad.org).
LibreCAD has been re-structured and ported to Qt4/5 and works natively cross platform between OSX, Windows and Linux.

When I search github for "Qt" LibreCAD is not in the results.
It will be in the results for "Qt4"

I recommend something that will get us more hits.
For example:

LibreCAD is a 2D CAD program written in C++ and uses the Qt framework.
The code is based on the community edition of QCad (www.qcad.org).
LibreCAD has been re-structured and ported to Qt4 / Qt5
and works natively cross platform between OSX, Windows and Linux.

... [show rest of quote]

If I ever search on github for a cad tool I would more likely search for 'drawing' then qt or qt4.

So I definitely would want to keep the word drawing, and perhaps a other word related to CAD/dring in the title.

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ravas

Aug 30, 2015; 10:49pm

Re: github project summary

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Sure, I agree.

I just want to be sure that a Qt developer will find LibreCAD if they are looking for projects to support.
We could be on page 3 of 100 of the Qt results (sorted by most stars).

ravas

Oct 09, 2015; 6:38am

Re: github project summary

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Note that it can only be changed by a repository owner.

"Qt4/5" to "Qt 4/5" (added space) would be an easy change.

I also suggest trying to work in other keywords like DXF, DWG, design, etc...

more keyword hits = more possible users / developers