Any work on Qt3.3/free needed?

Ralf Habacker ralf.habacker at freenet.de
Mon Mar 21 19:08:43 CET 2005



Chris January schrieb:

> Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
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>> Hello
>>
>> Last week Peter and me came up with the question, if there is currently
>> any more work on qt3/free needed or if we should wait for Qt4 and then
>> port a few things back which are broken in our qt ( mostly font stuff ).
>> We had no new bugreports on the list or the bugtracker for about one
>> month, on this list I didn't saw reports about qt3/free a long time and
>> I'm the only one who checked in patches since three weeks...
>>
>> What do you think?
>
>
> There are probably bugs still in there (the reason we have had no new 
> bug reports could well be simply that we have had no people testing) 
> but perhaps it's time to make a public release available. That way we 
> can remind people that it's only Qt4 for Windows which is being 
> released under the GPL by Trolltech and not older versions. I can see 
> Qt/Win Free being used as a stop-gap by people who want to use their 
> software on Windows but have not as yet ported their code to Qt4. I 
> think it should be clear the public release isn't 100% complete, 
> however. Perhaps we should label it a beta release.
>
> Chris
>
At least the qt-3.3.4 patches are still open and should be applied to 
cvs. The question is for which compiler binary packages should be 
released. I can provide msvc.net and the cywin releated but not more.

Ralf





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