D2 GUI Libs

[dsimcha]

== Quote from retard (re at tard.com.invalid)'s article
> 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.

Because the Boost license doesn't require attribution for works only distributed
in binary form.