Qt 3.3 Released; OSNews Talks With TrollTech's CEO

JigSaw writes "The new version of Qt (to be released Wednesday) features .NET support, full 64-bit support, IPv6 and backend support for two more databases. In light of the release, OSNews features an article with TrollTech's CEO, Haavard Nord. Nord says that he sees Linux strengthen its position in both business computing and embedded systems, while he forsees Qtopia and Linux taking over PDAs and Smartphones in the next few years." It's Wednesday, and Qt 3.3 has been officially released -- read on below for some more info.

Cronopios writes "The Norwegian company TrollTech has just released version 3.3 of their excellent cross-platform Qt toolkit, which is the foundation of KDE. This version adds support for .NET framework, 64-bit processing, IPv6 and gcc on MS Windows. The announcement and the complete list of new features and improvements are available at their website. As usual, the Qt libraries are released under several licenses, including the GNU GPL :-)"

Comments

Qt and Windows

[eric2hill]

The main problem is that as a C++ developer on Windows, I cannot do /any/ development with Qt without paying a $2000 license fee. The only way to get a GPL version on the Windows platform is to purchase a $50 book that comes with a "limited edition" of Qt/Windows, but lord knows what that means. I wish they had a development version of Qt/Windows that didn't include any deployment licenses...

Re:Qt and Windows

[grrussel]

Actually, you of course could use the X11 version in combination with Cygwin or Services for Unix and any X Server for windows. The X11 version of QT is QPL, GPL and commericial, but it is not restricted to Linux due to the cross platform nature of X11.