Qt SDK discontinued?
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bq. sierdzio wrote:
It’s just that as guesses go, this one is quite well supported by various little clues ;)was okay until I read the last statement :-( - I wish all our guesses to go false - I feel now that Qt should have been with TrollTech alone!!
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Yeah, I wish Trolltech never sold out to Nokia too, but I guess that unreasonably big pile of cash was just too big to resist, perhaps due to poor commercial exploitation of Qt while it was still independent. The eventual canning of the SDK is the least of the negative consequences due to having Nokia behind the wheel, even thou there were some good too, like LGPL for example, which did help with Qt's popularity, the result of which is now there are more disappointed developers...
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[quote author="utcenter" date="1343808708"] LGPL for example, which did help with Qt's popularity, the result of which is now there are more disappointed developers...[/quote]
Yeah thats the feeling that most of the developers (will) have. I too wish that all our guesses go false and we hear some good newz.
BTW shouldn't this topic be moved to The Lounge
Andre already posted something "here":http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/18657/P15
check "this":http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1MTM
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I might be just speculating here, but it seems that if we, the community want to see more features being added then we must be more proactive. I'm referring to the Open Governance feature of Qt 5 if it gets released before Nokia destroys Qt forever.
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bq. we must be more proactive
Example?What kind of proactive actions could we help Qt survive?
Contribute codes, donation, release Qt5 with charge?Still a beginner who learning Qt4, Qt5 looks amazingly good and
I hope it could release without any troubles.Qt is such a wonderful technology, It would be a big lost to the C++ community
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[quote author="stereomatching" date="1343820545"]
Example?What kind of proactive actions could we help Qt survive?
Contribute codes, donation, release Qt5 with charge?[/quote]By doing it ourselves if we have to. I'm a beginner too learning Qt 4, but I can already see how useful this toolkit is for the C++ community. I have already seen commercial entities (namely Digia and RIM) contributing to their own implementations without giving back to the community. Bastards!
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[quote author="fractalist" date="1343840382"]
[quote author="stereomatching" date="1343820545"]Example?What kind of proactive actions could we help Qt survive?
Contribute codes, donation, release Qt5 with charge?[/quote]By doing it ourselves if we have to. I'm a beginner too learning Qt 4, but I can already see how useful this toolkit is for the C++ community. I have already seen commercial entities (namely Digia and RIM) contributing to their own implementations without giving back to the community. Bastards!
[/quote]Now, no need to spread FUD without checking first:
RIM has made great contributions to QNX, and their current SDK is based on Qt.
Digia has contributed to both Qt releases currently available (4.7.4, 4.8.2).
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This is interesting... way back dated to March-2011
"Qt and Digia, facts and fiction":http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/14/qt-and-digia-facts-and-fiction/
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Another interesting things here!!
Way back to again March-2011 :: "Future of Qt brighter after Digia buys licensing biz from Nokia":http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/03/future-of-qt-brighter-after-digia-buys-licensing-biz-from-nokia/
Now this is disturbing part as of today 2-August-2012 :: "TECHNOLOGY LAB / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Nokia reportedly planning to sell Qt as more developers are laid off":http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/nokia-reportedly-planning-to-sell-qt-as-more-developers-are-laid-off/ -
Sounds like water will be clear after Qt 5 official release, which is going to happen August-2012 month end.
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Probably not, code is not yet ready. Remember, there has been no beta yet. It's not so easy, changes are very big :) But indeed, it seems that Nokia aims at end of August.