[Qt-interest] Qt future ...

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thanks Thiago for sharing your point of view ... I suppose you have something else to do to write that ... but for us it's quite difficult to see if invest time in working with Qt is always a good things to do and we are always trying to find if there is an existing business model for Nokia, and so a future for Qt... one more time, I don't wants to start a troll ...





Le 27 avr. 2011 à 14:10, Thiago Macieira a écrit :

> Em Wednesday, 27 de April de 2011, às 13:40:44, Arnold Krille escreveu:
>> On Wednesday 27 April 2011 12:48:22 Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> Em Wednesday, 27 de April de 2011, às 12:29:02, QtNext escreveu:
>>>> I don't wants to restart the big thread from March after the bad
>>>> news
>>>> ...  But just wants to know if some good news (Thiago says that we
>>>> don't
>>> 
>>>> know all about that ...) are coming for Qt :
>>> I'm not going to discuss this with an anonymous person.
>> 
>> Oh please! Grow up already!
>> 
>> He is not trolling, just asking questions. Question any one developing with
>> Qt for a living (with or without a commercial license) is asking in the
>> last months. And four weeks after the big announcements, we are still left
>> with very vague encouragements only.
>> If you only want a "name" connected with these questions, use mine...
> 
> Ok, I can answer you. But what's the question? I can simply rehash what should 
> be already known to everyone:
> 
> I can't divulge any details that aren't public yet. 
> 
> The same future for Qt inside Nokia that I talked about two months ago is 
> still very much true and the details are still very much secret. 
> 
> Qt developers are still here, still doing what they were doing in January (ok, 
> we're trying to do a little less Symbian). No one has been laid off. There have 
> been a lot of blogs on technical material on labs, showing we're still working 
> on new features.
> 
> The Android port is going on just fine. We're happy with it and we're helping 
> as much as we can under the circumstances. If you try to install a Qt-based 
> Android application after you install Ministro, it goes and downloads Qt just 
> fine and quickly (it's even faster than on older Nokia phones that ship without 
> Qt).
> 
> Qt is not getting ported to WP7. Even if it did get ported, you don't get a 
> C++ compiler for WP7 from Microsoft, so what would be the point?
> 
> Qt 4.7 is coming to Symbian. I think there were some announcements.
> 
> Qt 4.8 is branched, modularisation is landing to the master branch.
> 
> Intel is still investing in MeeGo and still using Qt. If you want more 
> details, you'll need to contact someone from Intel.
> 
> The Nokia MeeGo device is going to be released but for obvious reasons that 
> should be apparent to everyone, I won't be telling you when. I've been using 
> it in the office for some time now, though...
> 
> The MeeGo Conference in San Francisco has an impressive set of talks, 
> including several from Trolls. I'll be there talking about Open Governance.
> 
> And on that subject, Open Governance is still going on strong. The servers are 
> being set up as we speak.
> 
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