On quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2013 17.35.30, Scott Aron Bloom wrote: > Is this really the tact you want to take?? Im sorry Thiago, I have a ton of > respect for you, your code, and the work you have done with Qt. > > But I read your views on this thread as "I don't care about how hard it is > for Windows based developers to develop Qt products"
Oh, I do care about Windows. I care enough that I build Qt on it once a month, despite it taking 10x longer than anywhere else, the lack of decent tooling, the braindead choice of using backslashes and drives, the lack of a compliant POSIX API. I care enough about it that I will probably write a PE-COFF parser to complement the existing ELF one Qt has had and the Mach-O one I wrote for Mac last month. I just loathe working with it. So my *personal* opinion is that anyone with half a mind will choose to develop on Linux or, worst case scenario, on Mac OS X, if given the option. Those are what I call decent operating systems. I'll settle this with one word: valgrind. Windows is not decent for development. No, we tolerate Windows because we have to. Some projects do not have the option of developing on (what I call) decent operating systems, with decent and modern tooling. And besides, Windows is *still* the biggest market for Qt. It's crucial we keep it working. I just don't have to like it. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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