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

[Paul Floyd]

Quoting Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:

> On 21.12.08 15:47:18, Robert Hairgrove wrote:
> > 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?
>
> boost is an additional dependency, which some people don't want to have
> (especially customers make a difference here). And I'm not sure wether it
> builds on all platforms that Qt supports.

Boost is more of a loose federation of bits of libraries and header collections
than a traditional monolithic library. It isn't necessary to be able to "build"
all of it in order to be able to use parts. In particular, I expect that the
more "TR1"ish parts will work on the large majority of systems.

IMO the KDE and other 3rd party bits that were added to Qt 4.4 are poorly
supported on anything other than Linux/GCC, Windows/VS and Mac OS X/GCC. (Not
that Boost is lacking in the same sort of GCCcentricity defects).

A+
Paul