QT 3.2 Released

GlennZ writes "Today, Trolltech has released version 3.2 of QT. This release includes a completely rewritten, faster font-rendering engine and a lot more. Go download it today!"

Comments

$1550 just to use it? No thanks.

[Guspaz]

3.2 is out you say? Sure, if you want to spend $1550 to use it under Windows.

The newest version available for "free" use on Windows is 2.3. So much for QT being cross platform!

Trolltech has made QT useless for many people who need to be able to run their programs under linux and/or windows, and can't afford Trolltech's rediculous licences.

QT isn't free, far from it. It's far more expensive than the alternatives. If I'm not mistaken, a single QT licence even costs more than a copy of Visual Studio.NET!

Re:hogwash.

[FroMan]

you say you have "more than $1550 of development software on my machine" ... well if you wanted to start coding with QT... guess what? you just *DOUBLED* your expenses!

BZZZTTT!

What part of "more than" did you not understand?

Anyways.

The only other free toolkit that I know of is gtk. There might be others, but gtk and qt both have their advantages and disadvantages. Over all qt is a complete programming package, similar to MFC. Qt is much more than gtk though. Qt includes IO, database, and many other objects that gtk does not.

With all the supporting libraries that come with qt are similar you do not have to spend two weeks researching what database access api you want to use, or any other sort of issue similar. You simpley pull out the qt database connectivity objects.

Anyways, I'm not a huge qt fan as far as libraries go. I don't care for the qic stuff and such. But, the point is use the tool that will make you more productive. If qt covers its cost use it. But stop the idiot idea that because something is free it makes it better.

Reminds me of a signature I had once...

The ultimate dutch dilemma: free manure.