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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT for Windows released under GPL
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2005-02-09 4:44:33
Message-ID: 200502090244.41643.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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Paulo Moura Guedes wrote:
>Though, I'm not for porting all the KDE environment to Windows. I'm
> talking about the development tools only (kdelibs, designer, kdevelop,
> quanta, etc). I think there should be an official commitment with this
> goal.

I, on the other hand, feel exactly the opposite.

While the KDE project should not thwart attempts at making kdelibs run on 
Win32, it is not and it should not become our goal to make it so.

In other words, the KDE project was started to give Unix a desktop 
environment. That's our goal. And that's where I believe our effort 
should be most focused in. I would rather not devote precious hours our 
developers have to making KDE/kdelibs run on Windows.

That is not, however, to say that kdelibs will never run on Windows. Other 
developers are out there, and part of the work has already been done. We 
cannot tell people what to do or not to do, so whoever feels like working 
on this, you're welcome to do so.

It's just my opinion that we could use all help in other areas.

As for my code specially, I have almost no knowledge of the Win32 API. 
That means I cannot help at all porting my own code to Win32. Someone 
else will have to do it if anybody wants kdelibs to run on Win32.

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