"dsimcha" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > == Quote from retard ([email protected])'s article >> Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:53:50 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> > Eldar Insafutdinov wrote: >> >> Right now we are working on a next QtD version. We dropped support for >> >> D1, it is D2 only. I believe Qt suits all your requirements very well. >> >> It's performant - we try to emulate as many C++ types using D structs >> >> as possible, for drawing purposes. So types like QPoint - are D >> >> structs >> >> and for drawing lines you can pass D array directly. No perfromance >> >> hit. But of course we cannot avoid all of them, it is still a binding. >> >> Regarding the license, Qt itself is LGPLed, QtD is boost. you don't >> >> have to put any attribution. About stability of APIs - Qt4 is stable >> >> within the major version. At the moment we are working on >> >> signals/slots >> >> implementation. It is mostly complete, but syntax may change. It will >> >> hopefully change once and stay forever. >> >> >> >> I would say that QtD is in the state close to that of D2, almost >> >> there, >> >> but not quite ready yet. But we intend to release the next version, >> >> which will be ready to use earlier than D2 anyway, I would say within >> >> a >> >> month. >> > >> > I salute the decision of going with D2, as well as that of using the >> > Boost license. If there is anything in the language that prevents you >> > from getting things done, please let us know. The availability of QtD >> > concurrently with that of D2 will hopefully push both forward. >> I don't get why Boost license should be used. It's just confusing to have >> yet another free for all license as it basically promises the same things >> as the 2-clause BSD or MIT license. The only difference I see is that the >> author of a Boost licensed software publicly admits that he is a Boost >> fanboy and thinks the license somehow got better after his personal >> deities rewrote it from scratch with NIH mentality. > > Because the Boost license doesn't require attribution for works only > distributed > in binary form.
The zlib license, then.
