qt-copy and Qt 4.3

Marijn Kruisselbrink m.kruisselbrink at student.tue.nl
Wed Mar 21 15:45:46 GMT 2007


I'm pretty sure at least ubuntu does package qt-copy currently, but 
still since I'm running mostly on Mac, I'd be all for this change.

Marijn

Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the first beta of Qt 4.3 has just been released and in the light of the recent 
> discussions I'd like to update qt-copy to that release next Monday. (or 
> earlier if people want)
>
> But before doing that I'd like to hear your opinion on an idea that's been 
> floating around for a while now: With the development on Mac and (especially) 
> Windows picking up how about we turn qt-copy into a multi-platform copy of 
> Qt?
>
> What I thought of is unpacking all four open source editions of Qt in 
> Embedded -> Mac -> Win -> X11 order into qt-copy. The resulting directory 
> tree should be fairly close to what we successfully use in Trolltech for 
> cross-platform development, except that this combination of packages is not 
> exactly tested. But I'm all optimistic :)
>
> The resulting qt-copy would contain files that are dual-licensed (GPL + QPL) 
> and some GPL only. But I don't think that is a problem, and I hope no 
> distributor packages qt-copy anyway. It should really only exist for the 
> convenience of KDE development.
>
> Any opinions? :)
>
>
> Simon
>   





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