[Interest] Nokia SDK vs. Qt Commercial SDK

[Scott Aron Bloom]

You are missing that the baseline is free access to _the source code_
_and_ a well-defined, provably working, reasonably fast way to get
_your_ changes in, and influence the direction the whole thing goes with
_your_ ideas.

Points two and three are _quite_ different from what we had at Trolltech
and "early" Nokia times.

Packaging of binaries on top of sources is "nice to have". "Really nice
to have" actually, and a real differentiator when it comes to lowering
the barrier of entrance, but by no means _essential_ in the process.
Distributions will build from source, even most commercial customers
re-build from source in a configuration _they_ need, instead of using
the ones coming pre-compiled with (any of) the SDK(s).

The Qt Project infrastructure is still being set up. I personally expect
it to be able to build "stock" SDK packages at some point of time, and
at the same time I expect Digia to continue building and supporting
slightly different SDK packages as well. The SDK framework is
intentionally modular to serve different combinations of individual
components to adapt to different use cases.

Andre'
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While true... that the binaries are not essential, the mkspec files are
not... And digia apparently does not consider deriving from previously
existing opensource mkspec files, open source... Ie VS 2008/2010 64 bit
mkspec files which exist for digia customers, but are NOT in the
opensource world

Scott