Date:  Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:19:00 +0200
From:  VOICE News Service <feedback at os2voice.org>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Update of Qt 4 Port to 4.6 Halted Because of Lack of Funds

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From: henneckeDESPAM at DESPAMpointblank-edv.de

Silvan Scherrer has halted further work on the port of the Qt 4 framework to OS/2 and eComStation because of lack of funds. The initial port has already resulted in ports of several important applications like Scribus, Quassel IRC, QBittorrent, and an updated SMPlayer. After the release of the version 4.5 GA, work on updating the port to version 4.6, implementing further functionality, and optimization had begun and considerable improvements had already been reached, especially regarding issues with SMPlayer performance. As with the initial port, development would have been funded by donations from the OS/2 and eComStation community. However, the amount of donations made so far is not sufficient and financing the port in advance is out of the question.  

If you want development to continue, please consider contributing by buying sponsor units at the Mensys online shop at:  

http://www.mensys.com/NetlabsQT4

The detailed project status, history, and roadmap are available at:  

http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4

A donation meter is available at:  

http://qt.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml

Qt is a cross-platform application development framework, which is widely used as a widget toolkit for developing GUI programs but also for console tools and servers. Using Qt, developers can write applications once and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without having to rewrite the source code.  

Availability for OS/2 and eComStation both means that developers can easily port existing Qt applications and create new ones more easily than with standard PM programming or the outdated, buggy IBM Open Class Library.
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