VCF - A Free BSD Competitor To Trolltech's Qt?

TioHoltzman writes "There's a new 0-6-5 release available of the VCF, aka the Visual Component Framework. This release has a slew of new features, and it looks like it could become a real contender against Trolltech's Qt toolkit. It currently runs on Win32 platforms with an active Mac OS X port underway. There's still lots to do, but it can run some of the samples now on OS X. There are some screenshots here (1), here (2), and here (3)."

Comments

It's not that I'm against advertising...

[david.given]

...but if you're going to post an advertisement, say it's an advertisement! Tio Holtzmann is a direct spokesman for VCF; submitting a story as if it was written by a third party is dishonest and makes the whole editorial process at Slashdot look shabby.

Well, shabbier.

At least the submitter is a real user with a history, and wasn't created as a marketing ploy; but would it have been so hard to stick 'Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers!' at the bottom?

Re:It's not that I'm against advertising...

[Senjutsu]

Perhaps, but when every single developer who runs into the project keeps asking why this is not getting more press and being written up on slashdot, maybe that says something to?

It does. It says:

Keep improving your project, and eventually it will get noticed, used, and become popular enough that some impartial third party will become excited enough to submit a story about something related to it (Ask Slashdot: Why isn't VCF more well known?, perhaps),

On the other hand, what it doesn't say is:

Submit a story to slashdot pretending you aren't the lead developer while the project is still in its early and butt ugly stages and has no compelling advantage over any of its competitors, thereby irritating and alienating the very audience that might otherwise have cared about it. You want to advertise your own project, submit it to Freshmeat again, FFS. It's not windows only anymore.

If the only person who cares enough to submit something about your project is you, be up front about it. Don't try to con people into believing otherwise. This is hella lame.

Re:What am I missing?

[JabberWokky]

Yes, but Qt isn't a GUI toolkit, it is an application development framework and language extension (Database abstraction, application scripting, Signals and Slots, the foreach loop, etc). All I see here is a GUI toolkit. GUI widgets and layout comprise only a small part of what Qt is.

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Evan

Re:All hat and no cattle.

[jhunsake]

Don't listen to these assholes. If I still programmed in C++, I'd definately consider using VCF.