[CS-FSLUG] Distro flame

[N. Thompson]

Fred Miller wrote:

>On Friday October 22 2004 12:02 am, N. Thompson wrote:
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>>I'm probably never going to switch away from Qt as long as I can afford to
>>use it, right now I've got a free edition for use in Windows but when I
>>update my Linux distribution to anything with a version of Qt newer then
>>3.2.x then I won't be able to work on my programs in Linux and have them
>>compile in Windows. As far as GTK goes thats only claimed to be portable,
>>in Windows you have to go to much more trouble to distribute a GTK app then
>>you would distributing a Qt app in Windows and WxWidgets and FOX didn't
>>have any books (for that matter neither did GTK).
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>Why is that? What's the difference.......license?
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>Fred
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The only version of Qt I have for Windows is 3.2.1, it came with the 
book C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3. The only other way to get a copy of 
Qt is to get a commercial license for >1000$ USD, too much for a student 
to pay. Qt Designer is not intended to be backwards compatible, if I'm 
not mistaken neither is the rest of Qt so I'm not sure if anything I 
write with a later version of Qt will compile and run with Qt 3.2.1.

BTW. Slackware has Qt 3.3.3, I think I may fetch the 3.2.1 Free X11 
version from Qt's ftp site so I can keep working on dilm for both 
Windows and Linux. It would give me some excellent experience making a 
statically compiled version of Qt, in case I decide to get a commercial 
license if I have some spare cash lying around a couple of years from now.

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