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Qt 4.8.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the how-qt-it-looks dept.

jrepin duly notes the release of Qt 4.8.0, and extracts from the announcement some of the key changes for developers: "Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA) restructures the GUI stack to enable easier porting of Qt to different windowing systems and devices. Threaded OpenGL enables us to render OpenGL from more than one thread concurrently. HTTP requests are now handled in a separate thread by default. The file system stack received some heavy lifting under the hood. The result is better I/O performance."

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  1. Re:First post! by Tanuki64 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It involves webkit, which is a 3rd party package. The documentation of webkit is not the best, to put it friendly. Maybe this is a part of the reason?

  2. Bad for the open source community and for software by Darting · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bad for the open source community and for software in general - http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2011-December/000908.html "So now there is total of 108 improvements and bug fixes available in Qt Commercial 4.8.0 that are not part of the LGPL release"

  3. Re:Bad for the open source community and for softw by OG · · Score: 5, Informative

    And the rest of the note says that the delta between commercial and LGPL versions is not desired on their part and they want to get the changes into the LGPL version by the next point release. Hopefully in the process they'll better streamline the process so the two versions stay in sync, but nothing seems to suggest that they're trying to deliberately differentiate the two; in fact, the post referenced says just the opposite.

  4. Re:Qt by nxg125 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fair enough. In that case, I say "cute" because that's the way the Qt guys have said it is pronounced.

  5. And then there's phonetics by zooblethorpe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Strictly speaking, there's also a schwa (that funny kind of default unstressed vowel sound in many [most?] dialects of English) between the /th/ and the /m/, though it isn't spelled. That gives us at least two vowels.

    And in rhotic dialects of English, the /rhy/ could be analyzed as a diphthong (i.e. two vowels gliding from one to the other), potentially giving us three vowels for rhythms.

    And then there are fun dialectical oddities like "bed", pronounced with two clear syllables in some parts of the US, more like /bay ed/.

    Ah, the joys of English spelling and pronunciation!

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    "What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
    "A four-foot prune."