On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 10:37, District Webmaster wrote: > In assembling the latest version of the SSS cd, I ran into an > interesting issue. Ribbonsoft (the makers of QCad) have decided to only > release demo versions of the QCad binary -- it terminates every 10min. > If you want one that doesn't terminate, you have to pay up. > > As a result, I stayed with an older version on the cd. The code for QCad > is still GPL, and you can download it, but it requires Qt developers > edition to compile. This was beyond my ability -- and I would guess > beyond the ability of most of the intended SSS audience.
> Since the code is GPL'ed, we should be able to download it and > compile > it ourselves, yes? Is there anyone on the list that would be willing and > able to do this vor the next version? If not, should we continue to > include the old version, or would you prefer to drop it altogether? > (That would be a shame, it seems usefull.) QT for windows (from trolltech) is not available under the GPL (or rather it is kind of, but only in the form of a visual studio binary dll, so we can build a gpl binary if we wanted. There is also a port of QT/X11 at http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3/ that is not X11-based. Anyway, I built qcad on linux last night (without the 10-minute timeout) and someone adventerous could do the same on windows (if you're willing to admit you use visual studio) either with the visual studio qt/free version, or under mingw32 using the qt3 port (native, non-X11 port). Off-topic here, a full native, non-X11 port of KDE to windows is in the works. Should be cool. Looking forward to replacing the ugly windows startbar with kicker. > Any thoughts? > > Dave > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
