[Liverpool] Way back into technical topics

[Sebastian Arcus]

Thanks Dan. To be honest, I haven't even bothered with QT at all, for 
political reasons, if nothing else. It use to be with Trolltech, then 
with Nokia, now somewhere in the middle with no clear answer as to who 
is going to be behind it. Nokia is now going with WinPho as a platform - 
so it is even less clear how much of an interest they will have in QT. I 
guess they will just sell it to some other company, which might just 
cause a fork - and so and so on. Then it use to have the issue of 
non-commercial license with funny restrictions along their commercial 
license (I believe you couldn't build commercial apps based on the open 
source version - which is not a problem with GTK - don't know what the 
current licensing is). I prefer a project which is firmly in the hands 
of the community - instead of being shepherded by a commercial company 
or another which changes it's mind every few years in terms of what it 
wants to do with it.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway,

Sebastian


On 03/10/2011 11:57 AM, Dan Lynch wrote:
> Most of my desktop development on Linux has just been with pyGTK, but I
> can't tell you how useful that is on Windows.
>
> I just thought I'd make a quick mention of Qt 4 as a possible
> alternative. It runs very well on all platforms, though I don't know if
> it translates to native controls. Lots of developers rave about it.
> Might be worth a look.
>
> That's my 2 cents, I'll let you get back to the complicated stuff :)
>
> Dan
>
>
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