Re: [dev] Qt as a valid replacement for VCL

2009-01-17 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Éric Bischoff wrote: > Recoding for qt, gtk, win32, and Cocoa is a serious duplication of efforts. > > If the purpose for having an abstract layer and porting on so many APIs is > PORTABILITY to many operating systems, then this duplication of efforts > becomes > useless, because Qt is already

Re: [dev] Qt as a valid replacement for VCL

2009-01-17 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Juergen Schmidt wrote: >> Along that lines, see the work that's happening around dialog >> auto-layouting and the awt toolkit >> (http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/friday_1470.pdf) > we need the layouter, we need it, we need it ... When will it be really > usable? > Hi Juergen,

Re: [dev] Qt as a valid replacement for VCL

2009-01-17 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009 22:47:19 Thorsten Behrens, vous avez écrit : > Hi Eric, > > why are you following up to my (unrelated) lib unloading mail?! Bad habits of mine, sorry. > (...) > So that's nothing we should do on a whim - quite the contrary, Of course. > we should never ever again bin

Re: [dev] Qt as a valid replacement for VCL

2009-01-17 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Thorsten Behrens wrote: Éric Bischoff wrote: Nokia recently relicensed the Qt library under a triple license : GPL, LGPL, and commercial. Qt is cute, modern, C++, easy to program with, and multiplatform. Wouldn't it be the ideal replacement for VCL, now that LGPL is an option? Hi Eric, wh