Future of Qt: Digia aquires Qt
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Qt everywhere. Let this become true.
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[quote author="Jayakrishnan.M" date="1344500641"]Qt everywhere. Let this become true.[/quote]
Indeed. Oh, indeed :)
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Great, and I like this news....
Hope "Dream come to true" -
Finally free of Elop's (and thus Microsofts) death grip. And with proper Android and iOS support, maybe Qt5/QML will after all have been a good idea for mobile platforms.
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I hopes it will be possible to use QML on QT5 Ios .. for now it seems that there is a big issue with V8 on ios ?
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Message that was posted on the mailinglist:
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I’m sending this to you on behalf of Tuukka Turunen.Dear all,
I am happy to let you know that today Digia announced its plans to acquire the Qt technology and assume main responsibility for all Qt activities from Nokia. This includes driving forth the Qt Project together with the community. The acquisition also includes a part of the Nokia Qt team. Read the full blog post for more details: http://www.digia.com/en/Blogs/Qt-blog/Tuukka-Turunen/Dates/2012/8/Digia-extends-commitment-to-acquire-Qt-from-Nokia
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Ah, great! This is going in the right direction.
Lets hope that the Trolls in down under get saved too, then everything should be fine.I'd like to see Qt spread to more platforms, Android and iOS are a good way to start.
But I also think that the qt project must be continued, Qt has to become independent. -
There are 2 updates on Nokia's blogs, written by "Tuukka":http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2012/08/09/digia-extends-its-commitment-to-qt-with-plans-to-acquire-full-qt-software-technology-and-business-from-nokia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheQtBlog+(The+Qt+Blog) and "Sebastian":http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2012/08/09/investment-in-qt-planned-to-continue-digia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheQtBlog+(The+Qt+Blog).
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any comments of Qt project community manager about this news ?
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This is by far the best news about Qt we've had in months.
I guess with this announcement, the time of uncertainty about Qt's future is over (at least for a while).
The official announcement's text fuels hopes of a even brighter future of Qt on as many devices as never before. I'm even a bit surprised they anounced their commitment to Android and iOS with their first official statement, but it definitely shows a clear vision of true platform independence - a vision that could not be developed as effectivly when a company like Nokia is responsible for development, that has a high interest in committing to one specific platform only.
Nevertheless, I'm grateful for the effort Nokia has put into Qt within the past years and I believe that it has contributet a huge amount to the successful development of Qt in the past.
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It would be more than a little ironic if Nokia's new main smartphone platform ends up being the only major such platform without Qt support...
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Great news,so happy!
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Great news, hopefully Digia will be a good home to the developers of Qt. It would be good to get Qt back on tracks, and how that QtQuick is pretty much done, get the focus back on the native APIs, improving the old, rusty ones and creating craeting nice, public APIs to make use of the many features, that were exclusively available to QtQuick under Nokia.
But even with the old APIs, official and quality Android and iOS support will be great.
Also, it is about time to move onto GCC 4.7.x
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Awesome news :)
Android, iOS, Windows 8 + BB10, Julla :p
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Good news,
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Hmmm, good news for the community... not so good for those who'll be laid-off after working so hard on Qt... just saying...
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^^Hopefully not, depends on what is digia's intent, simply milk what already exist or actively develop it further. I bet all of us prefer the second scenario, and pretty soon we will know, based on what will actually happen to the developers of Qt...
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[quote author="utcenter" date="1344526854"]^^Hopefully not, depends on what is digia's intent, simply milk what already exist or actively develop it further. I bet all of us prefer the second scenario, and pretty soon we will know, based on what will actually happen to the developers of Qt...[/quote]
According to the official statement and recent discussion on mailing list, the "125 people" is pretty much everybody working on Qt within (currently) Nokia, except - sadly - Brisbane. But don't take my word for it, if you want to be 100% sure, wait a bit and ask the Trolls on IRC or ML.
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Good news, the uncertainty is over. I welcome the renewed focus on the desktop.
When my N9 breaks, I look forward to replace it with BB10 or Jolla !
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Maybe Brisbane is already sold to someone else... ;) just trolling
But I think the chances are good, that the down under trolls get saved too now.