From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-02-24T06:56:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Textmate on Windoze!

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:45:57AM +0900, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:26:09AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:22:32AM +0900, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> [...]
> > > I'm tempted, but I'll resist. While the majority of open source apps
> > > that use Qt do so through KDE, the same is not true for commercial
> > > apps. Your statement that "Qt generally means 'plus thirty KDE
> > > libraries'" is, at best, only applicable to open source Qt apps, which
> > > makes it irrelevant to the discussion of Textmate. At worst it is
> > > actual trolling.
> > 
> > Considering that, like E-TextEditor, a Linux/BSD version would probably
> > not be an actual port of TextMate, I doubt the fact that TextMate is a
> > commercial app would be particularly limiting in determining what
> > libraries would be used for such a unixy clone of the software.
> 
> No one was talking about a clone. The discussion was about the Textmate
> guys themselves porting to Qt4 to make it cross-platform, and that's why
> I'm taking issue with your post. We're specifically talking about a
> proprietary application (well, two of them if you count the Windows clone).
> You brought up KDE, which is almost exclusively used by open source
> applications. It's completely irrelevant.

So . . . you'd only use it if it was created by the same guy?  Are you
more interested in who owns the copyright than whether or not the
software provides the functionality you need?


> 
> > Considering that you're so quick to leap to judgment about trolling, you
> > sound a bit like a troll yourself.
> 
> Ad hominem. Ignored.

That's really funny, considering the accusation to which that was a
reply.

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