Future of Qt: Digia aquires Qt
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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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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, 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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[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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There will be a solution found for Brisbane, as they are responsible for Qt3D, QtDeclarative, QtMultimedia, QtSensors and QtSystems, as well as for the CI/QA (for which we have already confirmation that it will be part of Digia). All modules which are of great importance to Qt5 and the strong mobile focus Digia wants to attain.
We have no additional information yet, but I'm confident that things will turn out well for Brisbane - which would be the cherry on this super-delicious cake.
