[Qt-interest] Windows 8 Store

[Michael Jackson]

On 5/4/11 11:59 AM, in article iprt5l$cbe$1 at snorken.nokia.kunder.linpro.no,
"Ross Bencina" wrote:

> Robert Wood wrote:
>> What amuses me about all this is that Linux has had its own on-line
>> "store" in its repositories for years. As usual, Linux is way ahead of
>> everyone else, yet gets least recognition. ;~)
>> 
>> Rob - with his tongue at least partially in his cheek!
> 
> Oh man, this thread is so twisted I don't know who is serious and who is
> sarcastic.
> 
> 
> 2011/5/4 Jason H:
>> Which is why we should have a Qt Desktop App store, where you can get
>> platform-independent apps.
> 
> Then Qt would be the platform -- that would be a bad development imho. Qt
> should continue to strive to be a great framework for developing for any and
> all platforms.
> 
> I would like to develop Windows apps, and OSX apps (and Android apps etc),
> that just happen to be using Qt. Qt should be in the background doing its
> job for us all, not an end-user brand.
> 
> *cross-platform is a state of mind, not another platform*
> 
> 
> <totaly-serious>
> Personally I have no reason to believe that MS would have any problem with
> Qt based apps in their App Store. Windows apps are developed in all sorts of
> ways. Any suggestion to the contrary in this thread seems to me to just be
> unfounded MS bashing from Linux fanboys who probably don't even use Windows.
> </totaly-serious>
> 
> Anyway, the only vendor possibly so fascist as to reject apps because they
> are Qt-based is Apple...
> 
> *ducks*
> 
> Ross.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4337855/qt-applications-on-new-mac-app-st
ore

Seems Apple is the *least* of all the store worries. Maybe just need to
check where all your files are being written and make sure those files are
written in the proper place and it looks like your Qt based app would be
accepted. Maybe this is something the Nokia/Qt should climb to the top of a
mountain and start shouting.
  "Hey come us our framework because we are accepted at the Apple App
store."

And I would think that you could potentially build an iOS app using Qt IF
Nokia would ever get it compiling for iOS. Just think of that. With the
android port of Qt you could use a single dev framework and target BOTH the
App stores from Apple and the Android platform, WIndows platform and Linux.
Hmm. MAYBE someone should get that going?

Mike Jackson