knoopix tool using qt/Win Free Edition@freenet.de

[Ralf Habacker]

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 13:36, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > last week I met Klaus Knopper the initiator of the well know KNOPPIX
> > linux distribution. He told me that he currently uses a delphi
> > application for creating image files anmd swap files on an ntfs
> > formated  drive. Because of the commercial delphi IDE  he feels
> > uncomfortable to release the original source under gpl. While we a
> > talking about qt/win he asked if it would be possible to write a qt
> > gpl'ed application doing this job. So I took some time and wrote a
> > static linked application, which wasn't a real problem.
> >
> > When this application will be release, it will be seen by many people
> > and will be a good change to do place some marketing for the free qt
> > library, so I added a info page about the the qt/Win Free Edition.
> > While doing so, I stumbled again about the project name KDE-Cygwin for
> > the qt library, so my thoughts were again if it would be better to us a
> > more descriptive name like Dave Bronsemas project on
> > http://qtwin.sf.net. I'm thinking about either redirecting the webpage
> > directly to qt3-win32 or to move all qt related parts like qt-3 related
> > webspace, cvs qt-3 subdir to this project to give it a descriptive home.
> >
> > Any comments ?
> >
> > Regards
> > Ralf
>
> WE HAVE got the only FREE windows Qt of version 3.x. So all information
> is in the name Qt3 Win/Free although there will be Qt4 Win/Free from
> Trolltech. Why not reuse or create a sf project with such a name and move
> all code to this project?

yes for example the above mentioned project qtwin. 

> One question is, should such project only cover Qt3 or also stuff for
> Qt4 which is not provided by Trolltech?

I think like Steven sayed it should cover both and should be a uniq source for 
non-trolltech stuff. 

> Therefore we should first find the final name of our Qt and then looking
> for the right place.

If this project covers qt3 and qt4 qtwin seems to be the right name . 

Regards
 Ralf