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Update of Qt 4 Port to Version 4.6 Resumed
Silvan Scherrer has restated work on the port of the Qt 4 framework to OS/2 and eComStation and the developer will continue with updating the port to version 4.6, adding new features, and optimizing the implementation.
Originally, further development had been halted at the end of March due to lack of funds. As with the initial port, development would have been funded by donations from the OS/2 and eComStation community. However, the amount of donations had only covered 34% of the required sum of 2500 Euro.
The withdrawal announcement sparked more donations and 94% of the required sum have been reached to this date. As a result, Silvan has decided to resume the project and would like to express his thanks to all contributors.
Please consider helping to cover the remaining cost by buying sponsor units at the Mensys online shop at:
http://www.mensys.com/NetlabsQT4
Surplus funds will be used for further developmentm, e.g., a future update of the port to version 4.7.
The detailed project status, history, and roadmap are available at:
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can easily port existing Qt applications and create new ones more easily than with standard PM programming or the outdated, buggy IBM Open Class Library.