Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
- Subject: Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
- From: Marcel Weiher <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:51:12 +0200
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 04:42 Uhr, Sailesh Agrawal wrote:
I'm continually surprised at how Mac users embrace platform dependent
code.
The extent sometimes surprises me as well, especially where it is not
necessary. However, for a lot of stuff it can be acceptable, for
example when you have well-factored GUI/model code and redoing the GUI
is "cheaper" than using a cross-platform library (both direct cost and,
more importantly, indirect costs due to less efficient, coding-wise,
APIs).
I would have thought we would be the first to push for cross
platform and open programs.
"We" do and did. Objective-C is cross-platform and open. Foundation
has cross-platform/open implementations. AppKit has open
implementations that are growing better cross-platform support as we
speak. AppKit also had an excellent (working, released, used
commercially) closed cross-platform implementation ( OPENSTEP/NT, aka
YellowBox/Windows) that it promised to make available at "low to zero
cost". However, Apple later reneged on that promise and killed the
technology.
Is there any one else out there who's
thinking of making the switch (Cocoa -> QT) ??
I don't see any compulsion for "switching", though I will very likely
have a look at building (Windows) GUIs for my cross-platform Cocoa
code...
Marcel
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Marcel Weiher Metaobject Software Technologies
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Metaprogramming for the Graphic Arts. HOM, IDEAs, MetaAd etc.
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