[Qt-qml] QML if Nokia goes WinPhone7?

[Charley Bay]

Mark spaketh:

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> While it may be obvious, I do not believe it is confirmed.
>

Good point:  It is not confirmed exactly what this future means.  However,
IMHO, there's maybe 72 hours to hurry-and-reverse-course, and IMHO, that is
quite unlikely.

Specifically, through this deal, Microsoft effectively has primary control
of the Qt product line.


> Is Nokia going to abandon QML and the rest of Qt toolchain?
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Yes.  Qt will be used for Meego, which effectively is also killed.  In
short, Qt is no longer part of the Nokia value proposition, as I read it
(and I wasted five hours of my life today reading threads and analysis).

In its place, the Microsoft toolchain and .NET will explicitly be used.


> Remember that Qt toolchain is not just for phone.  It is used by many other
> things and has been around for a while as a cross-platform C++ toolkit.
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Agreed -- most of my work is "heavy desktop" (commercial), including my use
of QML.  However, I can no longer justify commercial development using Qt
nor QML.  Quite literally, in every sense, they have no place in the
forward-looking Nokia business plan (so "real" developers have no way to
appraise the Qt product offering).

It is possible Qt is sold off.  However, IMHO, Microsoft will exercise as
much power as it is able to disallow that (to kill Qt).  Of course, an
LGPL-fork is always possible.

IMHO, an LGPL-fork will be imminent.  We can re-assess possible Qt and/or
QML use after that spin-off and/or fork.  But yes, in the mean time, BRICK
WALL.

This was an absolutely disastrous decision in the short-term, in terms of
developers using Qt.  In the long term, it may be positive, specifically
because the net result *may* be Qt/QML/Quick managed independent of the
Nokia parent company, which has irreversibly alienated its current developer
community.

Bummer, since I still think Qt/QML is best-of-breed for state-of-the-art
today (by a lot).
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