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Trolltech Plans GPL Release For Qt/Mac

Posted by timothy on from the not-just-kde dept.

michae1m writes "Trolltech today announced that Qt/Mac will be released under the GPL (GNU General Public License) at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2003 in San Francisco on June 23rd (http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/announcements/0 0000129.html). For some screenshots check out dot.kde.org/1055852609. This means many X11 Qt apps will be easily rebuilt for OS X without requiring X11, very cool."

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  1. Re:How ironic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wild guess here...

    Nobody.

  2. Qt apps don't BEHAVE like Mac apps! by anarkhos · · Score: 1, Funny

    Qt apps on OS X behave exactly the same as Qt apps on any other platform. They behave like Win3.1 apps.

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  3. Re:does that mean by andy666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    i guess that answers my question...how ironic.

  4. Arg! Arg! Arg! by TomorrowPlusX · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've spent the last 4 months porting a fair amount (> 15 kloc) of qt code to std c++ on the backend (removing *all* qt, and writing my own classes that map to qt's classes where needed) and rewriting the gui in native cocoa/objective-c.

    And now I discover it was completely unnecessary!

    Arg! :P

    ( on the other hand, it's been a good experience. cocoa is a beautiful API, and rewriting the backend in pure c++/stl has actually improved it, since the stl is really, *really* quite good. )

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    1. Re:Arg! Arg! Arg! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      after all that and we don't get a link to your project! :)

  5. Re:What's more exciting... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Funny
    I find the foundation kit does everything the C++ STL does, but in a more intuitive way.

    You make it sound like being more intuitive than STL is difficult...

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  6. Re:Yeah Baby! by muonzoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that's embarassing. Next time I'll engage brain before mouth. Nah, this is slashdot. :-)