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by anon on Monday 31/Jul/2006, @22:44

Hello, Sorry if this has been answered before.

I know that your primary goals aren't to be a windows program, but I am wondering if this is ever going to happen now that QT for windows is GPL? Also, now that KDE4 is coming out for windows, and I saw recently on my free Kubuntu CD's that it comes with Korganizer for windows, are there going to be more killer apps ported over to windows..

This might sound silly to some people, but for those of us who primarilly develope websites on windows (mainly because that is the main target of users) Quanta could be THE killer app for me..

I'm sure there are others who would agree, and others who would be against it, but I just thought it would be nice.. if you ever find the time :)

Thanks! Keep up the good work!

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Re: Windows Support
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 01/Aug/2006, @00:22

> This might sound silly to some people, but for those of us who primarilly develope websites on windows (mainly because that is the main target of users) Quanta could be THE killer app for me..

Yes it could, especially if we pull of Object Templates and the new user interfaces, or if you happen to develop with PHP. Running windoze for that reason? VM Ware is offering a free runtime and there are open source solutions to create your partition so that for exactly zero dollars (other than your existing Windows license) you have Internet Exploder there at the ready to see how it chokes on today's CSS. Problem solved. Now you can also get online without becoming a spam zombie in 3 minutes. ;-)

> I know that your primary goals aren't to be a windows program, but I am wondering if this is ever going to happen now that QT for windows is GPL?

I've answered this question before. I really hate Windows, and for very good and practical reasons. Not the least of which is that to date developing a Windows version of Quanta would torpedo all ongoing development, the tools would cost our team thousands of dollars, and we hate they way they do things. However with Qt 4 being GPL on Windows it's my understanding that people will be porting the KDE libraries pretty much out of the gate. Since Quanta is GPL I not only have no objection to it being made available on Windows, I have little I could do to stop it. I'm sure it will happen... I just won't be the one doing the work. However in theory it should probably be like compiling Quanta on BSD or OS X. As long as we follow KDE guidelines it should work with little or no patching.

I'm happy it will be there pragmatically because it will expand our users and move more people to more sane development models. However it's like VM Ware, it makes a lot more sense to run your Windows programs under Linux than the other way around.

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