> If we move these classes out of QtGui and into a math library and then QtGui 
> still needs to link with that library as the classes are used there. If we 
> then start adding more domain specific classes to this math library, then the 
> stuff that a plain UI would drag in also increases, even though it is useful 
> only to a subset of the applications. I do not like that.
> These classes were added primarily to support graphics in Qt, like the shader 
> programs, 3D math in relation to OpenGL, QGraphicsTransformation and Qt3D. 
> Much of the arithmetic uses floats because it is closely related to OpenGL 
> and our use of them. They should stay like that. For performance and for 
> simplicity.

Aye, so much for collaboration! Let me duplicate 9X% of those classes
so we can maintain from two places. We can surely afford this since we
are a manpower army (especially looking forward in the near future
with this Nokia change).

BR,
Laszlo Papp
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