Date:  Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:55:55 -0400
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Qt 4 application and UI framework for eCS, OS/2

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From: Silvan Scherrer <silvan.scherrerDESPAM at DESPAMaroa.ch>

Qt 4 application and UI framework for eCS, OS/2

Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework. Using Qt, you can 
write applications once and deploy them across many desktop and embedded 
operating systems without rewriting the source code. (See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(toolkit)

A few years ago netlabs.org hired Dmitry A. Kuminov (aka dmik) to port 
version 3 of the toolkit to the eCS and OS/2 platform. This port is working 
well and made it possible to port many applications to our platform.

Some time ago Qt 4 got introduced and more and more applications are using 
this version of the toolkit by now. To make sure we can port those 
applications again, we have to invest some more work into the eCS and OS/2 
port, as Qt 4 redid a lot of things from scratch. Dmitry offered us to work 
on the port again, our goal would be to hire him for about 5 months, but we 
cannot do that ourself without help from the community.

We do have some money in the queue but it's not enough yet. If you would 
like to contribute to this port, you are welcome to buy a sponsoring unit 
for that at Mensys, 100% of that money will be transferred to netlabs.org.

Silvan Scherrer will coordinate the work for this port and Dmitry will do 
the programming.

Some applications that by now use Qt 4: VirtualBox, SMPlayer, Psi, Scribus, 
LyX and many more.

The Mensys sponsor link is:
http://www.mensys.com/NetlabsQT4


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