D2 GUI Libs

[retard]

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:53:50 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
>> Right now we are working on a next QtD version. We dropped support for
>> D1, it is D2 only. I believe Qt suits all your requirements very well.
>> It's performant - we try to emulate as many C++ types using D structs
>> as possible, for drawing purposes. So types like QPoint - are D structs
>> and for drawing lines you can pass D array directly. No perfromance
>> hit. But of course we cannot avoid all of them, it is still a binding.
>> Regarding the license, Qt itself is LGPLed, QtD is boost. you don't
>> have to put any attribution. About stability of APIs - Qt4 is stable
>> within the major version. At the moment we are working on signals/slots
>> implementation. It is mostly complete, but syntax may change. It will
>> hopefully change once and stay forever.
>> 
>> I would say that QtD is in the state close to that of D2, almost there,
>> but not quite ready yet. But we intend to release the next version,
>> which will be ready to use earlier than D2 anyway, I would say within a
>> month.
> 
> I salute the decision of going with D2, as well as that of using the
> Boost license. If there is anything in the language that prevents you
> from getting things done, please let us know. The availability of QtD
> concurrently with that of D2 will hopefully push both forward.

I don't get why Boost license should be used. It's just confusing to have 
yet another free for all license as it basically promises the same things 
as the 2-clause BSD or MIT license. The only difference I see is that the 
author of a Boost licensed software publicly admits that he is a Boost 
fanboy and thinks the license somehow got better after his personal 
deities rewrote it from scratch with NIH mentality.