Re: [boost] GUI library: vapourware?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-30 11:49:59

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Andy Little wrote:
>
>> 
>> "Vladimir Prus" wrote
>> 
>>> Sorry, *that table* does not contain any class names that sound like
>>> having to do anything with GUI.
>>> 
>>> The documentation further says: "We have stuff like QThread, QString etc.
>>> replacements but nothing GUI-like!". So, no, it's not Qt interface with
>>> free license.
>> 
>> See:
>> 
>> http://tnfox.sourceforge.net/TnFOX/html/group__guiclasses.html
>
> I did look there and the interface of the classes is quite different from
> Qt's. 
>
> Maybe some misunderstanding. Dave's reply quoted this my sentence:
>
>    > Long time ago, there was project to reimplement all Qt from scratch,
>    > under pure GPL license. That project did not produce anything viable,
>    > to the best of my knowledge.
>
> As I understood him, he though that TnFox is such reimplementation, which it
> does not appear to be.

It appears to claim that it is a Qt reimplementation, FWIW.

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