Big development in the GUI realm

huy nytimes at swiftdsl.com.au
Mon Feb 7 17:14:27 EST 2005


RM wrote:
> For all you GUI developers, things just got a little more interesting.
> Trolltech will soon be offering the QT GUI toolkit for Windows under
> the GPL license.  That means that PyQt may become a much more popular
> option in the near future.  Unfortunately, some things available for
> the commercial customers of Trolltech are not available to the GPL
> users.  For example, from their FAQ, it seems that no precompiled
> binaries will be provided.  Support for comercial compilers will not be
> built in, only for gcc (through Cygwin?). 

Isn't this just the same thing with a different spin. There was always 
an available distribution for linux for non-commercial use. Windows was 
always the problem. You still can't use it for windows without knowing 
how to compile the thing on windows.

huy



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