[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [ObjectCiv-devel] GUI

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Erik Sigra wrote:

> "Gaute B. Strokkenes" wrote:
> > 
> > Erik Sigra <freeciv@xxxxxxx> writes:

> > Qt on Windows and other non-unix platforms is not free (speech or
> > beer) or open source, so we can't use it (on Windows.)
> 
> OK You are almost right. The Windows version without X server would not be 
> able to use a Free Qt client. But the Windows version with X server could use 
> it. (Not that I care much about Windows.) For those who don't know, the 
> relevant information is in point 13 in this FAQ:
> <http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faq/free.html>

Which kinda defeats using Qt altogether (unless you *really* like the
API).  Even the Xaw client works on windows in this fashion.  Win32 users
*hate* being asked to install a X server on their machine.  And there
aren't many good free X-Windows servers for Win32 you know (if there's
more than two barely decent ones i would be surprised)...