[Freeciv-Dev] Re: KCiv?

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:52:12PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Thue wrote:
> > The argument that was brought up against a QT client the last time this 
> > came up was that it would too much trouble to maintain (more copies of 
> > client code always adds some initia), and that the KDe users could just 
> > use the gtk client.
> 
> Someone actually did a QT port of the client a while back.  I think it was the
> first client port to something other than Xaw, unless you count my port to
> Xaw3d.  I don't think they ever actually finished with it.

I didn't know that - do you have any leads?  We could mention it
on the site to feed to people who ask for a KDE port :-)

> People bitched about QT not being under the GPL.

OK, that was a problem, but it has been resolved.  I think portability
was the first issue.  Freeciv was started in C because it was
considered more portable than C++.  The Xaw client is being maintained
for the reason that Xaw was more widely available than GTK+.  This has
changed now.

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Reinier