Big development in the GUI realm

[Michael Goettsche]

On Monday 07 February 2005 17:52, RM wrote:
> For all you GUI developers, things just got a little more interesting.
> Trolltech will soon be offering the QT GUI toolkit for Windows under
> the GPL license.  That means that PyQt may become a much more popular
> option in the near future.  Unfortunately, some things available for
> the commercial customers of Trolltech are not available to the GPL
> users.  For example, from their FAQ, it seems that no precompiled
> binaries will be provided.  Support for comercial compilers will not be
> built in, only for gcc (through Cygwin?).  Also, their database drivers
> will not be available.  Oh, well, I guess you can't have it all.  Good
> news though!
>
> See more here:
>
> www.trolltech.com
>
> I wonder how this is going to affect the GUI landscape.

Not 100% right. Only drivers for commercial databases will not be included, 
mysql and co. are available.