[Qt-interest] VS 2010?

[Eric Clark]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-interest-bounces+eclark=ara.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-
> interest-bounces+eclark=ara.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Alexander G
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:58 AM
> To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] VS 2010?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Although, I would love to have it now, I suppose I can wait until 4.8...
> 
> 
> Then just compile it your self, its a matter of 1 or if you have a slow system 2
> hours.

That is what I have been doing for a year now, but what exactly is the point of paying for the commercial version anymore if I have to spend the 1 to 2 hours compiling it by myself. And, it rarely works out of the box. Usually takes a couple of tries and minor project/ code fixes to get it to compile. The minor changes are not a big deal, but when it takes an hour to compile, if I have to do that 3 times, it becomes half of my day. As of right now, this is about the only reason that we pay for Qt anymore because it actually saves us time and money. My time, since I am responsible for updating Qt, spent staring at my computer while I let Visual Studio use as much of my 4 processors as possible, is at least a full day if I have to do a Qt upgrade. Why? You say? Well, I mentioned the whole having to make minor fixes thingy, but I also have to compile a version of Qt for 2 different platforms and 4 different compilers. I have to compile in both debug and release and we support VC8, VC9, and VC10. It is actually cheaper for us to pay for a Qt license than to pay my nice salary to have me compile Qt locally 4 to 5 times a year for each new release of Qt.

So... in a business sense, maybe the Nokia guys should think about keeping their loyal Qt commercial customers around and support as many platforms/compilers as possible... I don't know, but it makes sense to me... We have held multiple commercial licenses of Qt through my company for at least 10 years now.

Eric

> 
> I'm using fresh compiled 4.7.2 with Windows 7 SP1 MSVS2010 with MSVC
> 10.0 32bit and it works like charm. Just download the sources and extract to
> e.g. C:\Qt\src-4.7.2 create a dir e.g. C:\Qt\4.7.2 set your Path to
> C:\Qt\4.7.2\bin open a VS command promt and run.
> 
> cd C:\Qt\4.7.2 && ..\src-4.7.2\configure -opensource -ltcg -no-qt3support -
> mp && nmake debug && nmake release && nmake docs && nmake clean
> 
> And there you have a perfect fitting Qt for your System.
> While compiling u need a least 14GB of free disk space, after that the
> 4.7.2 dir is only 2.5GB.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> Am 02.03.2011 16:37, schrieb Eric Clark:
> >
> >
> >>  -----Original Message-----
> >>  From: qt-interest-bounces+eclark=ara.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-
> >> interest-bounces+eclark=ara.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Thiago
> >> Macieira
> >>  Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 1:00 AM
> >>  To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
> >>  Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] VS 2010?
> >>
> >>  On Tuesday, 1 de March de 2011 13:41:11 Malyushytsky, Alex wrote:
> >>  >  Why you just don't reference patch link instead in documentation.
> >>  >  I would say this is worth to do no matter which tier VS 2010 is in.
> >>  >  Especially when you drop VS 2005 cause it is "too old".
> >>
> >>  Since we don't change our support status in patch releases, this
> >> change will  probably happen with 4.8.
> >
> > Although, I would love to have it now, I suppose I can wait until 4.8...
> >
> >>
> >>  --
> >>  Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
> >>    Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
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