Re: PerlQt is getting old

On June 6, 2005 10:26 pm, Ashley Winters wrote:
> --- Rob <[email protected]> wrote:
> > These two points seem mutually exclusive, since KDE doesn't exactly
> > have portability on its high priority list.
>
> KDE4 is the first version which really *could* be developed
> cross-platform. Qt/OSX was only released 6 months before KDE-3.0.0, and
> Qt3/Win32 wasn't available for GPL development.
>
> Now that it's reasonably possible to be cross-platform, I can hope
> there'd be a couple OSX/Win32 fans to pick up the ball and keep KDE4
> from becoming "stuck" to the GNU OS. You're right, though, it won't
> come for free. Someone has to want it. I shouldn't assume it'll happen
> the way I want unless I offer to do it. :)

I hope it will be more portable, currently KDE 3 has so many places where it 
directly calls X functions instead of finding a qt way, that its just not 
feasable to port KDE 3 to win32 :( (AFAIK)

> Ashley Winters


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