From: Chad Perrin Date: 2007-02-24T06:59:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Textmate on Windoze! On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:51:14AM +0900, David Vallner wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:32:09AM +0900, David Vallner wrote: > >> Chad Perrin wrote: > >>> The "ostensibly" bit is the important part of your statement: yes, it's > >>> entirely possible to write Qt applications without KDE libraries, but so > >>> rare as to be thoroughly remarkable -- especially since I haven't seen a > >>> credible app yet that uses Qt but not KDE libraries. > > > I probably should have been more clear about the fact that I'm speaking > > from the perspective of an open source software user. > > From which the only thing that follows is that your perspective is > intentionally narrow. Since the vast of open-source development happens > on OSS Unixen, where a KDE dependency is not a limiting factor to any > commercial end, it would make sense that someone making a GUI app on the > Qt side would use the extra rope that KDE would give him for his own > convenience or to get more functionality for his time. > > However, TextMate is not a non-profit open-source volunteer project. > Trying to suggest what decisions they'd make while speaking > demonstratively from a perspective that is, as you yourself admit, very > much not the perspective of the TextMate developers strikes me as odd in > the very least. Trying to ignore the rest of what I said about who's writing what software is getting tiring. I got involved in this discussion because I'd like to see what all the fuss is about, regarding the functionality and interface characteristics of TextMate -- not because I think TextMate can make a bunch of money through a free unix port. See previous messages for context or cease replying to me on this subject, please. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do." - McCloctnick the Lucid