Why Qt 3? [LWN.net]

Why Qt 3?

Posted Jun 14, 2006 18:37 UTC (Wed) by proski (guest, #104)
Parent article: Google Earth for Linux

It's interesting that Google chose to use Qt 3 rather than more modern and more portable Qt 4. Since the Qt library is packed with the application, it would have made no difference to include Qt 4 instead.

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Why Qt 3?

Posted Jun 14, 2006 18:57 UTC (Wed) by wlach (subscriber, #23397) [Link] (1 responses)

Likely the opportunity cost of porting the application was deemed too expensive for this development cycle. I'm sure it's in the pipeline..

Why Qt 3?

Posted Jun 15, 2006 0:16 UTC (Thu) by proski (guest, #104) [Link]

I didn't realize the Windows version was using Qt. Then it makes sense, because the Windows version likely pre-dated Qt 4.