[Qt-interest] QT windows visual studio 2008 version

[David Ching]

"Constantin Makshin" <cmakshin at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:201007031946.36701.cmakshin at gmail.com...
> Isn't it better to ask Microsoft about their tendency to create problems 
> for 3rd-party developers? DLL hell, manifest hell, overcomplicated file 
> formats, "wonderful" technologies incompatible with anything else, etc.. 
> :)

Every time MS releases a Visual Studio service pack affecting 
redistributables, it requires people to rebuild all their modules to be 
compatible, including Qt.  Qt has the same requirement every time they 
release a new "point version", e.g. 4.5 is not compatible with 4.4.  So 
everyone requires rebuilding the world, eventually.  We may think MS does it 
too often, but we should have a strategy to deal with that effectively 
anyway.

It is fair to say Qt does *not* have a very good strategy for dealing with 
this.  They did deal with it somewhat successfully with VS2005, as they had 
a separate build for SP1, but they did not carry that strategy forward to VS 
2008, they did not support the ATL Redistriutable Update releases from last 
summer in either VS 2005 or VS 2008, and I don't think they have released 
anything for VS 2010.  Speaking of which, VS 2010 has been out for some 
months now, and Qt calls that a Tier 2 platform, and even Windows 7 a Tier 2 
platform.

So we may call MS wrong-headed for causing some problems, but Qt is equally 
wrong-headed for their slow support of Windows.

-- David