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: Greg Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 21:20:48 -0400
On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 09:02 PM, Don Yacktman wrote:
On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 06:11 PM, Greg Weston wrote:
b) It's not free. TCP-enablement is almost de rigeur for any app that
might possibly have something to gain from it. Now say the phrase
"endian issues."
With Cocoa, it really is "for free". If you're using Cocoa right,
endian issues shouldn't be cropping up. The old NeXT environment
really did work as a one-click cross platform system. You could build
for 68k, HPPA, Sparc, and x86 just by selecting the checkboxes for the
architectures you wanted. That simple. I only had an m68k machine
for a while, but my beta testers _never_ found a cross platform
problem with anything I built on that machine. I just handed them the
built app and it just worked. It was amazing, and it was a while
before I trusted it because it was so amazing. But it got to the
point where I would have been surprised if something hadn't worked!
What concerns me primarily is the idea of moving data among
architectures. I have no problem with the idea of a single source base
running correctly on multiple systems, but do you really get reliable
datacomm without any extra effort? Or is that extra effort just part of
"using Cocoa right?"
G
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