Kde3.5 / Kde4.x OR Kde3.5 / Nde1.x

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Martin Laberge <mlsoft at videotron.ca> wrote:
> On Thursday 13 November 2008 05:42:15 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 2008/11/13 Martin Laberge <mlsoft at videotron.ca>:
>> > For 10 years, (from 1998 to 2008) I had a total Qt solution
>> > for accounting/inventory for a big distribution company.
>> > (the soft standed right, thru the cycle of Qt versions, without
>> > almost any change in the code)
>> >
>> >
>> > This passed from Qt1 to Qt2 to Qt3, without a itch. (maybe some little)
>> >
>> > Now, Qt4/Kde4. My solution is Borked. Just to start all over again.
>> >
>> > How much are we in this situation?
>> >
>>
>> What is the problem here? If your application depends upon Qt3, then
>> package Qt3 with your application. Qt is licensed under GPL and a
>> proprietary license. If your application is GPL, then you can package
>> Qt under the terms of the license that you are familiar with. If your
>> application is proprietary, then you should already have a license for
>> Qt instead of using KDE as a dependency.
>>
>> --
>> Dotan Cohen
>>
>> http://what-is-what.com
>> http://gibberish.co.il
>> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
>>
>> ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
>
> The problem is to have to rewrite it all.
>
> 250,000 lines of c++ code, for internal use,
> who have been maintained almost without change
> for the last 10 years, in 3 versions of QT.
>
> the QT1 , Qt2 and Qt3 versions, are all with the
> SAME source code.
>
> When a new version of Qt was released with my distrib,
> I just had to make clean ; make ; in the main directory
> of the application source, and we had a new executable.
>
> (Yes a program can be compiled on these 3 versions without change)
>
> --
> Martin Laberge
> mlsoft at videotron.ca
> Tel:(418)521-6823
> 30 Years of Unix Admin, and still learning...
>
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Well, you can still have qt3 and qt4 on the same machine....

-- 
Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)