[Interest] Oops! Somebody's got a bad case of dependency bloat!

[Justin Ferguson]

On Apr 10, 2013 4:22 PM, "Bob Hood" <bhood2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On 4/10/2013 2:52 PM, Justin Ferguson wrote:
> > Support will always suck for that platform.
>
> Please don't make disturbing statements like that.  Ifthat were actually
true,
> then it hugely discounts Qt as an option in development pipelines,
whether or
> not it provided commercial support.  I would not go to my team and
champion Qt
> on the project, knowing that "support will always suck for" Windows.  We
use
> Windows/Visual Studio as our primary development platform, and then
> build/tweak on OS X (and probably Linux, before long).  AFAIK, only one
person
> on my team uses OS X as his primary development platform.

fair enough and valid point; my wording was a bit brutish when what I more
meant was "windows support will probably always be less refined that Linux
and building qt will probably always require some soldiering"

and as another pointed out, none of this matters a whole lot to the end
user who just gets a compiled binary and a dll.

I'd love to see a way around forcing me (and my users) to use openssl but
thats actually an area where MSFT needs a bit of a boot to provide a more
realistic set of options.

> Now, Perl is on my system just for one aspect
> of building Qt, and it is of no further use.  Awkward design.

agreed but that's usually how I end up with all of the scripting languages
on my box and something ive sorta just accepted.

> Look, I understand it's OSS, and I also understand that Thiago (like many
> others) is a volunteer, and it was not my intent to attack him or his
> contributions in any way.  I'm simply concerned by a growing tendency I am
> seeing in the industry as a whole as OSS becomes employed to a greater and
> greater degree commercially.

This.

>I've seen some OSS projects have an
> "it's-good-enough" attitude, which is fine when it stays within the OSS
> ecosystem, but when it gets into commercial endeavors, it can be very
> frustrating to depend on, or, in some cases, even fatal.
>
> I always had the impression that Qt's developers held themselves to
somewhat
> higher standards for an OSS project.
>

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