Steve Litt wrote:
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 06:39:01 pm Richard Heck wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 03:20:17 pm Edwin Leuven wrote:
enrico wrote:
The gcc compiler is available natively on Windows at
http://www.mingw.org/
i think the qt installler optionally installs it (and it works out of
the box with qt creater...)
I'm hearing more and more great things about Qt these days. Pretty soon
I'll explore it.
Andre will be pleased to hear that.
Qt is a very large beast that is much more than just a GUI toolkit.
We're using it these days not just for the frontend but to handle a fair
bit of the cross-platform filesystem stuff. (Turns out we were using it
a bit too much, but you live and learn.)
rh
In what ways were you using too much of it? I'm considering Qt as a possible
development environment to automate my business, so it would be good to know
before I make the same mistake.
This was partly a joke, but had a real source. We were QFile to do
various filesystem-related operations in a cross-platform way, and it
turned out that this was, somewhat surprisingly, leading to gazillions
of filesystem accesses that were leading to slowness in some cases,
e.g., when people were using LyX to access files over slow networks.
Seemed like a good idea at the time, and in a way ought to have been.
Richard
