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Re: QTJava will be depreciated next year.

Subject: Re: QTJava will be depreciated next year.
From: Alex Shaykevich <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:06:39 -0700 (PDT)
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I'm curious who the lots and lots are. I really would think that anyone invested in QTJava would be scrambling to port away from it. I seem to get on average 1 QT auto update a month and I'm always wondering if this is gonna be the one to break everything or if QTJava.zip will just disappear from the latest distribution. I can't imagine a commercial application relying on QTJ. Some server-side components where the configuration is locked down yes, but the clock's rapidly winding down on using QTJ in a commercial desktop environment at this point and it would be folly to start development with it now.

--Alex

Rolf Howarth <email@hidden> wrote:

At 14:33 +0100 10/6/08, anthony rogers wrote:
>If this is the end of QTJava; thanks for the great ride (makes a backup).

It's not quite the end yet, by a long way. Apple are only saying it
will be deprecated, and not until next year at that, which presumably
means no updates and no more support. But that's been the situation
for years.

Perhaps things will gradually stop working over time but it doesn't
mean QTJava will be actively removed. There are *lots and lots* of
people who depend on QTJava. If Snow Leopard 10.6 removes it
altogether then users simply won't update to 10.6 (or indeed 10.5).

It's true you won't ever see QTJava support from Apple in Java 6, but
remember that Leopard still ships with Java 1.3.1 even now, and even
if they drop that then 1.4 and 1.5 will still be around and are
perfectly usable for most things.

-Rolf
--
Rolf Howarth
Square Box Systems Ltd
Warwick, UK.
http://www.squarebox.co.uk
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