Funny Aaron, the price isn't justifiable to many developers (Not including myself - Since I was willing to put down the cash to buy it)
But many won't touch it because if it $1,500+ (USD) for Windows Development. I think the money I spent was a good investment, but for some its not a price tag that everyone pays. Trolltech is a commercial product that just happens to have a GPL compatible license. But if you are a Windows and MAC developer its far from free. Its that simple. Just because QT is the basis of the project that you work on, it doesn't mean it is the ideal solution for everyone else. My comment was to point out the commercial nature of a product you are pushing here. If I thought GTK was the greatest thing since sliced bread why would I buy QT? Because QT on some projects makes sense, but not on all. I can think of one open source project that refuses to use QT because of the windows and MAC platform developer licenses (www.gnubg.org) . And I am sure that there are more. Mike On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:43, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On June 10, 2004 07:06, Michael Petch wrote: > > QT/Trolltech are a bit of an anomaly on the Windows platform. QT for > > windows is not a free product. To develop QT apps on windows platforms > > requires you dishing out a good chuck of change. Although I own QT for > > Windows, I think this one thing is worth noting to anyone doing cross > > platform development with it. > > when compared with the time saved and quality of product, the price is > justifiable. > > > Probably one reason why cross platform developers looking for least > > costly solutions don't always tend to jump on the QT bandwagon if they > > plan to target windows. Whereas GTK doesn't suffer this problem. > > Gtk+ also looks like complete crap on Windows, doesn't integrate properly with > the rest of the Win32 shell (file dialogs, anyone?), and has no widely > available commercial support on Win32. > > if you wish to do some open source development on Windows, and you want that > same code to run on non-Windows systems, then the drawbacks of Gtk+ on that > platform may be just fine. > > for serious development, it really isn't an option. > > - -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > while (!horse()); cart(); > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAyHOJ1rcusafx20MRAjsdAJ4wapnHnC7Un53WvkEyT6eOX7K9GQCglSj6 > EHMwtDoTSes8n1MwL653O1U= > =RLJ0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca -- Mike Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. Suite 1002,1140-15th Ave SW. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2R 1K6. (403)804-5700. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
