[bt-devel] [Fwd: BorCon, Qt license]

[Reginald E. Thomas]

Hello,

I think a port would be good, but would that mean we would give up the KDE
Support on the Linux(UNIX) platform as well.  If so, would that require much
work, because all of our work now is going into 1.0 which is based on KDE.
If we would not give up or KDE support on the Linux platform, would that
create more work because instead of a recompile on Windows (with slight
modifications)/ it would be totally different.  It would almost be like 2
products.  I don't know if my points are valid or not, but thats what going
on in my mind. 

BTW I would give $2.  I'm sure other people would too.

--Reggie

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Joachim Ansorg wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > > Wrong, if you'd read the mails Troy send you'd see that we have to pay it
> > > only once. Updates are cheaper and we don't have to buy them.
> >
> > I'd suggest you read it again ;)
> > I cite:
> > Please note that Qt is sold including 12 months of support and free
> > upgrades. Should you not wish to renew the support and upgrades
> > subscription you are still free to use Qt for as long as you wish, but will
> > not be eligible to receive support and upgrades.
> >
> > IMO it is a per-year fee, if we want to stay up to date with the qt
> > version.
> 
> Sure, if we want to stay up to date.
> But maybe it's not useful to do it, only to Qt 3.0 or whatever. And: We have 
> one year free updates.
> 
> > > > -Maybe it would not be necessary because the sword program will be
> > > > developed well and continuous.
> > >
> > > I think we shoud port because users send very often mails to me saying
> > > they like BibleTime's structure better than the interface of te Windows
> > > interface. Other people like you like the Win interface of Troy better.
> >
> > Hey! Don't be angry! I did nowhere say better, I only said it is good.
> > Both have advantages and disadvantages.
> 
> ok ok.
> 
> > > >  -we could use the recent cygwin
> > >
> > > Hm, I'm not really sure if Cygwin is supported by Qt. Otherwise we can
> > > use the free Borland compilers or buy some old bur recent C++ compilers
> > > (Borland / Inprise, Microsoft).
> >
> > Try to install the cygwin from the sword cd for testing. It does contain
> > many tools
> > we'd need (make...) to keep the existing make process. I think it would be
> > the easiest solution. bt should not split into a windowa and a linux
> > version which might happen if we used another compiler system.
> > You will need to update cygwin, though.
> 
> I can't install Cygwin because I don't have Windows :)
> Wine is too bad for this job.
> 
> What should I do now ? ;)
> 
> > Martin
> 
> --Joachim
>