[Qt-interest] Qt 4.8 and XCode 4.2

[Richard S. Wright Jr.]

It's not really the same as wanting, say a toolbar to be a little thinner, or perhaps a new class that would be useful. This is pretty basic development environment support, for what is a mainstream toolset. To deprecate XCode on the Mac… it's hard not to take that as an affront. It's hard not to imagine that future direction will make this more and more difficult as time goes on. It's hard to imagine that the new "elders" care as much about cross platform development as Trolltech did.

Richard

On Nov 2, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> On Wednesday, 2 de November de 2011 09:04:15 Richard S. Wright Jr. wrote:
>> This is why I hate open source. We were a paid license, now it's free for
>> everyone, and free so often in life is… worthless.
> 
> Funny, I remember customers complaining that their feature requests didn't get 
> implemented and that their bug reports didn't get fixed.
> 
> You make it sound that Trolltech did everything you asked while you were 
> paying for the license.
> 
> That was clearly not the case and it's still not the case today. Nothing has 
> changed in that front. What has changed is that now you can make it happen if 
> you really need it, as you don't depend on one single company to implement the 
> feature or fix the bug. You can:
> 
> 1) pay Digia for commercial support (like you used to with Trolltech)
> 2) pay any of the many consulting companies in the ecosystem to do it, and 
>  they're eager to accept your money (KDAB, ICS, Tieto, Nomovok, etc.)
> 3) find or hire a developer in your own company or do it yourself
> 4) talk to the community and convince someone to do it for free
> 5) do nothing and wait
> 
> Back then, you had only options 1 and 5.
> 
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