qt-copy and Qt 4.3

[Matt Broadstone]

On 3/21/07, Simon Hausmann <hausmann at kde.org> 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.
>
Sounds very logical to me, especially since with the advent of cmake
we really are trying to merge all the various os ports. How much work
would this entail? Why doesn't Trolltech provide an allplatform
package?

Matt

> Any opinions? :)
>
>
> Simon
>
>