From kde  Tue Aug 19 17:28:43 1997
From: "Sergey I. Panov" <sipan () rwf ! mit ! edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:28:43 +0000
To: kde
Subject: Re: GNOME Desktop Project
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Dan Hollis:
> 
> On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Sergey I. Panov wrote:
> > Dan Hollis:
> > > On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Rainer Bawidamann wrote:
> > > > Most of the non-GUI classes in Qt can be replaced from other libraries:
> > > > QString by the standard String class, the lists etc. by STL. I wonder
> > > > why Qt uses its own, maybe because they cannot use the free libg++ on
> > > > Unix ...
> > > As I understand it, many compilers can't handle STL.
> > That is not true.
> 
> Unfortunately it is true.
> 
> > And it is also not important as long as gcc(g++) can.
> 
> Wrong. Qt compiles with many different compilers besides gcc. To the
> trolls this is very important because probably not all of their commercial
> customers want/can use gcc.
> 

 If you had listen to what they are saying on that subject you would
have noticed that they (Trolls) use past tense. That WAS the case when
they have started!

 Sergey