[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Kde-games-devel] libadvkdegames (was qt)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:19:23PM +0100, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Reinier Post wrote:
> > Qt is very portable, covering the major platforms; KDE is getting there;
> > Freeciv is *ridiculously* portable, and it fact most successful in those
> > small niches where other games are not available or take too many resources,
> 
> Unless I am gravely mistaken, there is no free software version of Qt for
> Windows or Mac. Hardly small niches.

It is free for X, which presumably includes X on MacOS/X and Cygwin.
Most Freeciv ports use X as well; the non-X ports that actually work
are for Amiga and Windows (forthcoming).  So a Qt/Freeciv would still
still run on all its present platforms, but at least the free version
would require X.

> Yours,
> Per

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Reinier