Yet another GUI toolkit question...

[John J. Lee]

Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> writes:

> On Monday 13 February 2006 12:33 am, John J. Lee wrote:
> > Kevin Walzer <sw at wordtech-software.com> writes:
> > [...]
> >
> > > Commercial Qt is a little out of my price range.
> >
> > Commercial *PyQt* (including a license for Qt for use only with PyQt)
> > is $400 (USD) per developer (plus an extra $300/year if you want
> > upgrades).  That's compared to Qt license for use *with C++* varying
> > from $1690 to $6260.  So PyQt is 4-15 times cheaper than old-fashioned
> > C++ Qt!
[...]
> > PyQt 4 now seems to exist, though not as a stable release yet, so I
> > imagine it'll be a bit longer untill there's a release of Blackadder
> > that supports Qt 4.  I recall the PyQt 2 --> PyQt 3 upgrade as being
> > fairly painless (in terms of code changes), though.
> 
> There will never be a release of Blackadder that supports PyQt4.

Will there be a licensing deal that allows commercial use of PyQt
cheaper than the standard Qt C++ licenses?


John