[Kde-perl] PerlQt is getting old

Rob kdemail-raindog at kudla.org
Tue Jun 7 05:52:25 CEST 2005


On Monday 06 June 2005 23:15, Ashley Winters wrote:
> 2. Perl5 is showing its age. Soon, Perl5 won't be a first-choice
> language for new programs. Now that Perl6 is under active
> development, it seems realistic to predict seeing it deployed in
> production around 2008-2010.

I guess a lot can happen in 3-5 years, but I find it more believable 
that someone will fork perl5 rather than put the 
formlessness-by-design of perl6 into production.

> 3. Qt4 is a compelling platform for binding development. It'll
> provide GPLed cross-platform support for Unix/Win32/OSX. It has a
> ...
> 4. There is no room for a Qt-only language binding anymore. The KDE

These two points seem mutually exclusive, since KDE doesn't exactly 
have portability on its high priority list.

Rob




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