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Qt 4.8.0 Released
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."
Better I/O performance confirmed!
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
QT? Who cares!!! I'm peeing in my pants from the excitement about the new Qt-Creator!! :) I've never gotten excited so much about an IDE before :)
How do you pronounce a name like that?
I hate to feed a troll, but there's three schools of thought here:
I was hoping that they might finally get a fix in for this bug (and the likes thereof), which has been making printing under KDE a pain in the butt for the last couple of years (the 4th most hated KDE bug out there) - but nobody seems to care, even tho a patch is available. Nice going with that community process... sigh.
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"
I am sure those improvements and fixes will sooner or later make it into the LGPL version. Neither Nokia nor Digia can have an interest in both versions drifting too far apart.
Do the QT 4 dance!
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.
Damn, you're an asshole
Normally I think it is good style to pronounce it the way the developers intended it to be pronounced. And this is 'cute'. However, in this case they simply were not able to make it commonly enough known. If you are in the right group, more or less only seasoned Qt developers, 'cute' is fine. Anywhere else you might get funny looks. You might even get this look under seasoned Qt developers when you say that you are a 'cute developer'. Unless of course, you are a coding girl with the appropriate looks.
;-)
Fair enough. In that case, I say "cute" because that's the way the Qt guys have said it is pronounced.
I believe 'rhythms' is the longest English word in existence without a verb.
What if only one version drifts far apart? Would that be OK?
I believe 'rhythms' is the longest English word in existence without a verb.
Do you mean "vowel" rather than "verb"? If so, didn't you learn it in elementary school: A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y?
How do you pronounce a name like that? Only stupid "free software" hippies would make a word without vowils. Who's going to use this shit if you can't even say it?
It's meant to be pronounced "cute", although I used to say "kyoo-tee" before I was aware of this.
If I have my facts straight it was called "Qt" 7 years before adopting a Free Software licence, so those hippies of yours don't actually have a monopoly on consonants.
I love that this is modded 'informative'
http://rareformnewmedia.com/
No, as in hottie :-)
I love a cup of hot tea
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!
"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
And for the record, the first two schools are wrong. Official pronunciation is "cute," according to the developers. This is especially useful when you have QuickTime and Qt things expressed with the same letters. QT is short for QuickTime and is pronounced "cue-tee," but Qt is "cute."
Incidentally the name derives from the archaic Xt library. Which, as far as I know could only be pronounced by stating the letters.