[Qt-interest] [Ann] Qt Creator and Qt 4.5 Betas Released Today

[Robert Hairgrove]

Daniel de Kok wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Robert Hairgrove
> <evorgriahr at hispeed.ch> wrote:
>> Does QtCreator actually work with any Qt 4.x as stated? I have Qt 4.4.3
>> installed on Ubuntu Linux (7.04 Feisty Fawn). After qmake runs, I get
>> the following errors from make:
> 
> I haven't tried the latest Linux version yet, but I can confirm that
> Qt Creator works on OS X with Qt 4.4.3.
> 
> Take care,
> Daniel

Did you install just the binary version, or did you compile it yourself? 
In the meantime, I found out that QSharedPointer wasn't added until 
version 4.5, so I suppose I will need both betas in order to build my own.

For a long time, Qt supported a lot of older compilers which had trouble 
with the C++ standard template library. Now that support for these old 
compilers is being phased out, and the STL is mature now and supported 
by all the major vendors, I wonder why there is a need for 
QSharedPointer when there is already a very nice one in the Boost library?


There are a lot of these substitute classes in the Qt library ... QList, 
QByteArray, etc. QString offers a lot more comfort than std::string, 
IMHO, and therefore has added value. But it would be nice if more of the 
STL were incorporated into Qt and not need those "do-it-yourself" 
classes any more (just IMHO :) ).