Thank you Konrad for the in-depth response, and also a shout to Andre. I much appreciate it.
Now that I have a good idea of the current state, I must say I don't like the fragmentation that has occurred. When Nokia was "in charge" the LGPL/GPL was the same source as Commercial, and everything was included. Even before when Trolltech was in charge, the GPL was a subset of Commercial, but the subset that was there was exactly the same code. Now we are not guaranteed the same bug fixes (and eventually probably not even the same API's). I actually have several projects, some could go Commercial now, and some not. While I don't expect a major problem, it does mean multiple Qt versions installed to support all the different projects. I also miss the pre-built binary packages that used to contain the latest source releases, that were immediately usable, and in most cases, actually shippable. I needed to build Windows Qt because of SxS issues, but the Mac Qt was OK pre-built. As it happens, I am interested in taking the latest Windows Accessibility fixes in 4.8.2, and now I have to build all the platforms myself to get those. I do appreciate the promise that community contributions will have more impact now, and perhaps I will need to get more involved with that since that is what Qt is all about now. But coming from a Microsoft background, I really did like the support Nokia provided for free. You could almost forget Qt was open source, and now you cannot. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
