On Monday 23 February 2015 10:08:43 Mathias Hasselmann wrote: > Am 23.02.2015 um 08:11 schrieb Thiago Macieira: > > On Monday 23 February 2015 07:48:37 Mathias Hasselmann wrote: > >> Am 17.02.2015 um 14:36 schrieb Cristian Adam: > >>> One could rewrite this small utility into Qt and then it would be > >>> available everywhere. > >> > >> Somehow I thought that one of the big benefits of free software and open > >> source is, that you _don't_ have to rewrite each and every simple tool. > >> Obviously I've missed something. > > > > The problem is requiring glib on OS X and Windows in order to build Qt. > > What's exactly the problem with glib on OS X or Windows?
Autoconf and libtool, for starters. Just look at how difficult it was to get people to accept Perl as a dependency on Windows -- namely, the fact that it *isn't* acceptable to depend on Perl. So depending on sh & coreutils so an Autoconf configure script can be run is totally unacceptable. Like Lars said, it's the complexity. We should be removing it, not adding more. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
