Qt 4.5 to be LGPL http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F1312210

Now we just need a D port...

--bb

"Bill Baxter" <wbaxter@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.400.1231947622.22690.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com...
> Qt 4.5 to be LGPL http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F1312210
>
> Now we just need a D port...
>
> --bb

What was it before? (Pardon my ignorance)

Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "Bill Baxter" <wbaxter@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.400.1231947622.22690.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com...
>> Qt 4.5 to be LGPL http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F1312210
>>
>> Now we just need a D port...

...and a sponsor to make the port? I wonder how feasible it is to create  automated bindings.

>> --bb
> 
> What was it before? (Pardon my ignorance)

GPL or Expensive, it's in the article.

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Qt 4.5 to be LGPL
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F1312210
> 
> Now we just need a D port...
> 
> --bb

http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/qt-creator-ide-beta-released
then there is this.....

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:40:19 +0300, Bill Baxter <wbaxter@gmail.com> wrote:

> Qt 4.5 to be LGPL
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F1312210
>
> Now we just need a D port...
>
> --bb

There is a binding currently in development. http://code.google.com/p/qtd/

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:42 AM, naryl <cy@ngs.ru> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:40:19 +0300, Bill Baxter <wbaxter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Qt 4.5 to be LGPL http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F1312210
>>
>> Now we just need a D port...
>>
>> --bb
>
> There is a binding currently in development. http://code.google.com/p/qtd/

Excellent.   I didn't know anyone was working on it.  Qt is simply the best damn GUI toolkit there is.  But I wouldn't touch it with a meter long chopstick when it was GPL.

I guess the D port is going to have MOC too?

--bb

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Qt 4.5 to be LGPL
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F1312210
> 
> Now we just need a D port...
> 
> --bb

I just had the pleasure of informing my boss that we just renewed our $12000 worth of licenses for a soon-to-be-free product..... ah well...

Ive been using Qt for a couple years now and this is hands down the best cross platform development library on the planet. The way I see it this new license opens the world up to targeting a single platform: Qt - instead of windows, mac, linux, etc.

this could be a huge game changer

Bill Baxter Wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:42 AM, naryl <cy@ngs.ru> wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:40:19 +0300, Bill Baxter <wbaxter@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Qt 4.5 to be LGPL http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F1312210
> >>
> >> Now we just need a D port...
> >>
> >> --bb
> >
> > There is a binding currently in development. http://code.google.com/p/qtd/
> 
> Excellent.   I didn't know anyone was working on it.  Qt is simply the best damn GUI toolkit there is.  But I wouldn't touch it with a meter long chopstick when it was GPL.
> 
> I guess the D port is going to have MOC too?
> 
> --bb

Hi! We still think about it, we are not really sure if D1 has enough introspection capabilities to do it without preprocessor. D2 probably has enough, but we are targeting D1 for well known reasons.

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Qt 4.5 to be LGPL
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F1312210
> 
> Now we just need a D port...

There was Indigo, not exactly a port but a library to mimic Qt's API.
http://www.dsource.org/projects/indigo/

But that import is incomplete at the moment - I'll have to see what code I still have.  And maybe the project could be resurrected one of these days.

Stewart.

Bill Baxter wrote:
<snip>
> Excellent.   I didn't know anyone was working on it.  Qt is simply the
> best damn GUI toolkit there is.  But I wouldn't touch it with a meter
> long chopstick when it was GPL.
<snip>

Qt isn't a GUI toolkit - it's a multi-purpose library that happens to have a GUI toolkit among its components.

Stewart.