Re: [SailfishDevel] python development

2013-12-23 Thread Thomas Perl
2013/12/19 David Jensen : > Nokia's original book on Meego featured, I think, Python as the development. I > do not see this book on Amazon. However, almost none of the articles I have > seen relating to Jolla mention Python. I assumed Nokia believed Python was an > ideal language for an open syst

Re: [SailfishDevel] python development

2013-12-21 Thread Maciej Jaros
David Jensen (2013-12-19 21:46): Nokia's original book on Meego featured, I think, Python as the development. I do not see this book on Amazon. However, almost none of the articles I have seen relating to Jolla mention Python. I assumed Nokia believed Python was an ideal language for an open sys

Re: [SailfishDevel] python development

2013-12-19 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi Sven I have just done some digging into the history of Java and Qt, and was surprised to find that Qt is longer in the tooth than I had thought. Interestingly both Qt and Java emerged at roughly the same time. Trolltech [1] starting to write Qt in 1991. The earliest date I can find for

Re: [SailfishDevel] python development

2013-12-19 Thread Sven Putze
> The interesting question is, why did the original creators of Qt opt for C++, > rather than the more obvious Java? I suspect that the answer is in the > multi-platform ethos of Qt. Quite simply there is an open source C++ compiler > available for almost any architecture you can think off, whic

Re: [SailfishDevel] python development

2013-12-19 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi David You are pointing your finger at the wrong place. The blame (if any), belongs to Qt and not Jolla. Jolla made the sensible decision not to reinvent the wheel. Instead they chose to leverage Qt, which is a strong contender as the de-facto multi-platform development toolkit, and one

Re: [SailfishDevel] python development

2013-12-19 Thread Filip Kłębczyk
W dniu 19.12.2013 21:46, David Jensen pisze: Nokia's original book on Meego featured, I think, Python as the development. I do not see this book on Amazon. However, almost none of the articles I have seen relating to Jolla mention Python. I assumed Nokia believed Python was an ideal language for

[SailfishDevel] python development

2013-12-19 Thread David Jensen
Nokia's original book on Meego featured, I think, Python as the development. I do not see this book on Amazon. However, almost none of the articles I have seen relating to Jolla mention Python. I assumed Nokia believed Python was an ideal language for an open system that was easily modifiable by o