To All, I have been using Qt for 3 years already and I have some projects going on thanks to the multi-platform approach.
I had a previous experience working with GTK and then GTKmm looking for a C++ solution. Finally I learned about Qt as a framework centralized in C++ and it was amazing to discover a very well documented and clean API with a real and perfectly working multi-platform capability. All my projects are based on QWidget classes of course and I can compile the source code for mobile and desktop platforms with minor differences managed with #ifdef XXX. A real miracle thanks to the previous Trolltech team. But what happen now when new mobile phones come with Qt5 without QWidget support? All existing projects based on this technology currently in OVI store or private clients will stop working from one day to the other? When I started with Qt, I read about the promise to keep source and binary compatibility across the releases, what happen with this promise? This promise was and still is reinforced by Nokia's marketing statement: "Qt allows you to write advanced applications and UIs once, and deploy them across desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code saving time and development cost" I want to clarify that I'm not against QML/JavaScript, it could be an interesting approach to bring more (Java) developers into the pool. But I don't think, this is a fair and responsible decision from Qt's board to leave so many developers and current projects in the situation described above. I hope there is still room for changes and QWidgets classes are finally included for mobile platforms in Qt5. Because porting existing and complex applications with thousands of lines of code which have been optimized for so long with bug fixes and upgrades would be economically not interesting nor I could have the heart to re-do all my work again. On the other hand, what happen with the users who purchased these applications from OVI store? Will they loose them as soon as their devices are upgraded to Qt5...? Thanks, Daniel _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list Qt5-feedback@qt.nokia.com http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
