[haiku-development] Re: Haiku, Qt and apps, oh my!

  • From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:23:00 -0400

Wow did this thread blow up or what.

A couple people here seem to really like Qt. That is fine. Personally
I have gone my entire life (32 years so far) without learning or
writing any Qt or using any major Qt software. Maybe I am missing out,
but I am not that worried. In general though I don't see the big deal.

If people want to make a nice port of Qt to Haiku, great. But I'll
never use it to write software for Haiku, and will avoid software that
does use it. In fact I will strongly oppose Qt becoming part of the
standard Haiku install. It can be made very easy to add later with
whatever nice system we set up for adding software, but I do not want
it bloating the install disk or a clean Haiku install. I think all
such libraries should be treated the same way (GTK, Wine, or whatever
else greatly duplicates what a core Haiku API provides.)

Now obviously I cannot just unilaterally say this and expect everyone
to do it. But I hope the vision of the project is such that most
others will agree. Otherwise it starts to make me worried that my
vision of Haiku is wrong and I am not working on the project that I
think I am.

Regards,
Ryan

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