Andy Little said:
"Vladimir Prus" <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote
Failing that, anybody has any killer idea for GUI development that warrants new library? Why don't add Qt to the C++ standard?
No doubt, TrollTech has to make the money they deserve some way. They also give the stuff away to everybody that can accept GPL like terms. What I wonder is if anybody with contacts in the standard process and/or to the compiler vendors have ever considered Vladimirs suggestion, and approached the Trolls about it? Maybe there is a business case in that for TrollTech. They could be the prime provider of a larger part of the standard library to a number of compilers. I believe the main problem is that some of the compiler vendors have their own none-portable GUI libraries - are they willing to give these up, or make them portable and give them away? That is why this would not work - so don't blame the pricing of commercial licenses of Qt. -- Bjørn