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Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-10-22, 13:22
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Posted By Mark Wilcox
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

So, to return to this thread, I never did get the chance to compare those working frameworks and figure out how best to go cross-platform as they've been canned:...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-01-12, 12:15
Replies: 197
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Posted By Mark Wilcox
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

OK, I lost two goes at replying to this to a dodgy network connection on the train last night, so this might be a bit shorter than it should have been.

I said I would say nothing more until we had...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-01-11, 16:09
Replies: 197
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Posted By Mark Wilcox
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

Wow, that says it all. We're coming at this from very different perspectives.

Personally I see this as an extremely dangerous attitude coming from a very flawed analysis of the mobile app...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-01-11, 09:33
Replies: 197
Views: 140,679
Posted By Mark Wilcox
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

Yes, but 1 year from now Symbian^4 devices will only just be shipping, I'm assuming Maemo 6 is intending to be out slightly ahead of that. So it doesn't really matter what version of Qt the firmware...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-01-08, 10:14
Replies: 197
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Posted By Mark Wilcox
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

Hi dubik,

Thanks very much for coming to get involved in the conversation.


Really? Years? It seems stuff in Qt-labs typically gets to the mainline a version or two later - maybe Qt 4.8?

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Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2009-12-16, 13:58
Replies: 197
Views: 140,679
Posted By Mark Wilcox
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

Hi zchydem,


This is the pretty much the same argument I'm making about the duplication with the Symbian framework. :)


You may not care about Symbian and that's fine, but every Maemo fan...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2009-12-16, 11:28
Replies: 197
Views: 140,679
Posted By Mark Wilcox
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

A quote I picked up on twitter the other day which I really liked and seems very appropriate here:

-Mary Poppendieck

I was going to point out, again, that it's perfectly possible for two very...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2009-12-15, 18:17
Replies: 197
Views: 140,679
Posted By Mark Wilcox
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

Hi,

Thanks for the lengthy response. I don't see this situation as apocalyptic and I'm really glad that both platforms are in open source so we can start doing something about this rather than...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2009-12-14, 14:56
Replies: 197
Views: 140,679
Posted By Mark Wilcox
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

Hi,

I'll start by saying I work for the Symbian Foundation but these are my own opinions, not those of my employer. I'll also add that I'm a big Maemo fan too - I've had an N800 for ages, and my...
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