[Interest] Semi-OT: Was Nokia net good or bad for Qt?

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 30 de setembro de 2013 15:47:07, André Pönitz wrote:
> People did not ask for replacing a well-known standardized language with
> established development and deployment processes by some ad-hoc domain
> specific language without similar provisions. People did not ask to shift
> their compile-time effort onto their user's startup and run times. People
> did not ask to depend on technologies that are easily, and on some
> platforms commonly, blocked by downstream distribution channels. Etc.

I agree none of this was asked for.

> 
> Listening to the audience was not wrong. The presented solution partially
> is, as it bundles compulsory dependencies which are technically not needed,
> and often enough counterproductive.

Whether it's technically not needed, I don't have the grounds to answer. 
Whether in the long run it will be beneficial, it remains to be seen.

And many of the issues that were introduced can still be fixed.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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