Qt 3.3 Released; OSNews Talks With TrollTech's CEO 28
JigSaw writes "The new version of Qt (to be released Wednesday) features .NET support, full 64-bit support, IPv6 and backend support for two more databases. In light of the release, OSNews features an article with TrollTech's CEO, Haavard Nord. Nord says that he sees Linux strengthen its position in both business computing and embedded systems, while he forsees Qtopia and Linux taking over PDAs and Smartphones in the next few years." It's Wednesday, and Qt 3.3 has been officially released -- read on below for some more info.
Cronopios writes "The Norwegian company TrollTech has just released version 3.3 of their excellent cross-platform Qt toolkit, which is the foundation of KDE. This version adds support for .NET framework, 64-bit processing, IPv6 and gcc on MS Windows. The announcement and the complete list of new features and improvements are available at their website. As usual, the Qt libraries are released under several licenses, including the GNU GPL :-)"
Qt and Windows (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Qt and Windows (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:Qt and Windows (Score:5, Informative)
The Non-Commercial Qt 3.2.1 for Windows is fully functional. You don't get source code, but you do get binary libraries for VC 6 and
Functionally, it is identical to the Free Qt. Nothing has been removed. OpenGL, XML, tables, etc. Everything you're used to with the X11 Qt is there. The database component only supports SQL-Lite (included), and not OBDC or MySQL. Not being a database developer, I don't know how much of a problem this is. One might be able to create db plugins with the x11-free source code.
Licensing-wise, it's the standard noncommercial license. Your resulting applications must be freely redistributable and source code available. And they have to be strictly non-commercial. Any Open Source license is satisfactory, though you might need to add an exception if you use the GPL. The DLL is freely redistributable WITH your open source application. The license does stipulate that your app must not be a mere wrapper around Qt, so as to export its functionality.
This version does stick a "[Non-Commercial]" string in front of your title caption. This is the only functional change from the GPL/QPL version that I could find anywhere.
The upshot: If you intend to write noncommercial Open Source software for Windows, this version of Qt is far from onerous. If your purpose is to provide Windows versions of your X11 or Mac Qt software, this will more than meet your needs.
Re:Qt and Windows (Score:1)
Qt and video i/o (Score:1)
SuSE to use Qt3.3 with their KDE 3.2? (Score:4, Informative)
As far as I can tell then expect a rebuild of KDE 3.2 now that the final of QT 3.3 is available... so SuSE users who've just upgraded to that KDE 3.2 you should have read the readme first if you have problems later when stuff built with the real Qt3.3 gets released... :)
Re:SuSE to use Qt3.3 with their KDE 3.2? (Score:1)
Re:TROLLTECH? (Score:2)
Norwegian culture they are smarter than humans, and are very well respected. Since the company is based in Norway and they deal with technology, there is no joke.
PHP bindings for QT (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe with the new object model in Zend Engine 2, PHP5 will be deemed worthy.
-Jackson
Re:PHP bindings for QT (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:PHP bindings for QT (Score:2)
Hey, if they can have PHP-GTK, why not?
If they did, I'd certainly experiment with it.
Look and feel problem (Score:2, Insightful)
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Frustrations with Trolltech-Qt (Score:1)
Re:Frustrations with Trolltech-Qt (Score:2)
That's because you could buy one commercial license and have your other 1,000 programmers using the free edition.
As I understand it, the reason that the windows version of Qt has different licensing from the other versions is that many people were using the free version for their internal development (which the majority of software development is), so they were theoretically GPL, but neve
Re:Frustrations with Trolltech-Qt (Score:2)
And wow, I never would have guessed that a company would be concerned about making money. Who'd have thunk it? What would you have them do? Pay for their software development with t-shirt sales? Whatever.
Re:Frustrations with Trolltech-Qt (Score:2)
Well not quite. The last time I looked and it might have changed is that you can not do any development under Windows using QT for Windows. I looked at there downloads so I am sure no GPL development using the latest version of QT for Windows.
Also using GPL software for internal development and use is not a violation of the GPL. You have to give the souce away if you distribute it. Most people would not count internal develo
QT and video i/o (Score:1)