[Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

Rui Maciel rui.maciel at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 22:13:14 CEST 2011


Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> Furthermore, people still use Qt 4.4 to write their apps.  So even if
> development of Qt slows down to a crawl, you cares?  You keep using it
> as it is.  For as long as its being maintained (bug fixes and such),
> it's an awesome API already.  Some people would even welcome the
> stability that would bring (see Gtk and win32.)

People need to care, because sometimes stuff happens.  For example, if Qt 
ceassed development with Qt 4.4 then we couldn't expect Qt to work with 
Wayland, and this could pose a serious problem if (when?) the linux world 
dumped X11 for it.


Rui Maciel

[1] http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Support_for_Linux_X11



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