Qt/Win32 name

[Holger Schroeder]

On Saturday 18 December 2004 00:27, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> On Friday 17 December 2004 17:28, Dave Brondsema wrote:
> > Quoting Chris January <chrisjan at iomo.co.uk>:
> > > All interested parties:
> > >
> > > For a while we have been calling our free edition of Qt/Windows by the
> > > names Qt/Win32, Qt 3/Win32 or Qt 3 Win32. However I think it would be a
> > > good idea to rename the project to reflect its free status and
> > > distinguish it from Trolltech's commercial offering. So I'm after
> > > suggestions for a new name. Trolltech permits third parties to use the
> > > Qt mark so long as you are "clear and accurate as to the nature of the
> > > relationship between Trolltech and your company, its products or
> > > services.". I'm thinking of something along the lines of Qt/Windows
> > > Free Edition* (* this product is not released by Trolltech AS or
> > > affliated companies). Suggestions and comments welcome.
> >
> > Their free version is called "Qt Open Source Edition".  It is probably
> > good that we use "free" instead of "open source" to avoid too much
> > similarity.
>
> which would also goes more in the gpl direction ->
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
>
> > Qt/Windows Free Edition sounds good,
>
> me too
>
> > but it is a bit long.  We could refer to it as Qt WFE.
>
> There are at least two areas where we have to see how to select the naming
> schema.
> 1. Full name
>  QT/Windows Free Edition
>   in relation to trolltechs
>  QT/Mac Open source Edition
>  QT/X11 Open source Edition
>
> 2. package naming schema
>  qt-win-free-x.y.z
>
>   in relation to trolltechs
>  qt-x11-free-x.y.z
>
> Here we have a name clash between trolltechs full name definition and their
> package naming schema
> QT/X11 Open source Edition !> qt-x11-free.xyz
> QT/Windows Free Edition => qt-win-free.xyz
> The only problem i see could be in the future, if trolltech decides to
> release a windows open source edition, which will be probably named
> qt-win-free-x.y.z. Then the different editions are not  identifiable. Any
> hints ?
>
i think if/when trolltech releases qt this way, we could happily discontinue 
our version of qt, so no problem any more...

:-)

Holger

> 3. Shortcut
>     Qt/WFE
>
> Is this really required ? I don't know if trolltech has introduced any
> shortcut
>
> > I don't know if we want to discuss versions now also..  The question is
> > how do we denote Qt version numbers and our release version numbers.  For
> > example, we may aim for compatibility with Qt 3.3.3 and make many
> > releases, and then target 4.0 compatibility.  Perhaps we could say "Qt
> > 3.3.3 WFE 2", where 2 means our second 3.3.3-compatible release.
>
> I think we are providing patch levels for a official qt release, so I would
> suggest to name it patch release or similar.
> For patch levels there is a wellknown naming schema like Qt/Windows Free
> Edition 3.3.3-2 or using the filname schema qt-win-free-x.y.z-<patchlevel>.
>
> Regards
> Ralf
>
>
>
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