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Nokia Announces Qt 5 Plans

Posted by Soulskill on from the eggs-in-a-backup-basket dept.

aloniv writes "Since Nokia announced its switch to Windows Phone 7, people have been worried about the future of Qt. Well, it turns out Nokia is still going full steam ahead with Qt, having just announced their plans for Qt 5. Some major changes are afoot code- and functionality-wise, but the biggest change is that Qt 5 will be developed out in the open from day one (unlike Qt 4). There will be no distinction between a Nokia developer or third-party developer."

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  1. Re:wtf by eplawless · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At this point, Nokia is just tossing stuff out there as they think of it. "Oh man, we pissed off a massive chunk of our developer base. How do we make them less furious at us? ...besides scrapping the Windows Phone thing, I mean."

  2. translation.... by metalmaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "There will be no distinction between a Nokia developer or third-party developer." becomes "Develop it yourselves you lazy bastards, but dont forget to put our name on it too"

    1. Re:translation.... by suy · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "There will be no distinction between a Nokia developer or third-party developer." becomes "Develop it yourselves you lazy bastards, but dont forget to put our name on it too"

      Very wrong. Look at the list of maturity and status of Qt modules. Nokia still is ready to maintain a huge percentage of Qt. They simply deprecated stuff because they think that other alternatives are better (eg. ditch Phonon because there is QtMultimedia). The only piece that Nokia is not interested in maintaining and that the comunity is worried about, is QtSVG, because the alternative, the SVG support in Webkit, is considered too big/slow, or unsuitable for being LGPL only.

      This is Qt development frameworks (aka "old Trolltech") being honest in what they are interested about.

      Oh, and being even more open in how they develop (they already have public BTS and reports).