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Why not Qt4? (hi, Drew! was: Efforts to attract more users?)
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Why not Qt4? (hi, Drew! was: Efforts to attract more users?) |
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Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:33:46 +0900 |
Trimming the absurd CC list.
Bernardo Barros writes:
> many people in the gnu world are using qt4. are there reasons not to
> consider it?
A short summary:
- There are already Emacs implementations for all platforms supported
by Qt4.
- Qt is not a GNU project, some of the already supported toolkits are.
- TrollTech's position on licensing is suspect. Doesn't bother me in
theory, actually, as I believe that Qt should be considered part
of the OS[1] where available, but I suspect many core developers
would be wary of any dependency on a company with a history of
non-free licensing.
I think Qt is a non-starter, except as a bikeshed-painting exercise.
Footnotes:
[1] By analogy to Motif. Note that AFAIK the official position of
GNU and the FSF is clear that toolkits like GTK+ and Qt are *not* part
of any free OS. Therefore they must be distributed under GPL-compatible
licenses to be linked to Emacs.
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, (continued)
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Bernardo Barros, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, John Yates, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Richard Stallman, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Stephen Eilert, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Bernardo Barros, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/12
- Why not Qt4? (hi, Drew! was: Efforts to attract more users?),
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Miles Bader, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Richard Stallman, 2010/07/13
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Deniz Dogan, 2010/07/13
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2010/07/13
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Deniz Dogan, 2010/07/13
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/13
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Bernardo Barros, 2010/07/13
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Bernardo Barros, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Chong Yidong, 2010/07/11