Qt 3.1.1 Released

prototype writes "Trolltech has released a maintenance release to Qt bringing the version up to 3.1.1. This release fixes some build issues with the professional edition as well as problems reports on Solaris and HP-UX, changes to build with Borland Kylix and a bunch of other minor updates. This bugfix release maintains both forward and backward compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 3.1.0. The full changelog on the release can be found here. Patches are also available using xdelta 1.1.3 (but not for Mac OS X as size of the the resulting patch is nearly as large as the complete package)."

Comments

Re:"maintenance release"

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, this one is interesting, seeing as they are distributing patches with XDelta, a BINARY patching tool.

That's right folks, no need to download a multimegabyte binary package or recompile from source, just patch your old binaries.

Imagine how much faster updates of linux distros would be if the packaging tools supported simply patching instead of downloading updated rpms.

Re:Minor stuff

[WatertonMan]

If it is just minor stuff, why is the OSX patch so large? That suggests that a lot of this "minor stuff" was really improving OSX performance and compatibility.

How many people have used it for Carbon development under OSX? We've been thinking of developing some programs under Kylix/C++ Builder but if QT offers better crossplatform development we might head there. Any good links for a review?

Re:Forward compatibility?

[Trane Francks]

The parent is modded Redundant? Hmmmm.

For what it's worth, I concur with ShavenYak's statement that what they meant was that apps compiled with 3.1.1 will run on 3.1.0 systems and vice versa. The term forward compatible itself, therefore, is redundant, not the parent. Backward compatibility already takes care of the "forward" part (3.1.0 apps working with 3.1.1), so we must relegate this part of the release announcement to the realm of Buzzword Compliant. ;-P