Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 3rd Mar 2009 10:55 UTC
Nokia today announced the availability of version 4.5 of the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework. It also introduced Qt Creator, a new lightweight cross-platform IDE. Qt 4.5 and Qt Creator combined comprises the Qt SDK, an easy to install package that will let developers create applications quickly and easily. "Qt 4.5 is setting the benchmark for application development," said Benoit Schillings, Chief Technologist, Qt Software, Nokia (and for those who remember, one of the original BeOS developers). It's also the first release of Qt under the LGPL.
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I think you're overstating it a bit. Riverbank is mostly a one-man operation. I don't want to understate the work involved, but I don't think it would amount to man-years to duplicate if someone or some group was intent on doing so.
You're welcome to believe what you like about the man effort involved in writing high quality complete bindings for the Qt apis.
I speak as the developer of several Qt language bindings (QtJava, QtRuby and Qyoto C#), and should have some idea of how much work is involved. For instance, I've been working on QtRuby for over five years, including 2 years full time, and I can tell you that I still have a big todo list.
There are python bindings based on PyQt for KDE too, and any replacement project would need to replace that work too, while managing to keep the community on their side.