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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: GNOME Desktop Project
From:       Dan Hollis <goemon () sasami ! anime ! net>
Date:       1997-08-19 13:15:03
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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.

-Dan

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