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

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:19:15 +0100 CET

> Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  ...
> > 1. Since Qt (by Trolltech/Nokia) is now LGPL,
> > what about a port of Qt to run on Haiku? I
> > thought about this a while ago. Would it be
> > beneficial? I could take on this task.
>
> I´d love to have more applications available,
> even with some temporary inconsistencies.
>
> Perhaps I´m naive, but I think having Qt could
> work as a catalyst or bridge, paradoxically
> pulling Qt-based apps over to the Haiku API
> faster, not having to port them completely.
> Faster time to market.

If done correctly it could be almost as native as real stuff...
Besides, Qt is a rip off BeAPI, so it can't be that hard :)

François.

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