Hi,
I had to register to share my displeasure with qt5 release.
My little brother wanted to learn c++ and asked some advice since I’ve been programming professionally in a past, symbian geospatial stuff and such. I’ve had good experiences with qt and qt-creator, so I told him to get “Qt libraries 4.8.4 for Windows”. We have a bit distance and I’m on linux and he’s not, so I cant confirm, but is it so that the package does not have qt-creator in it? At least he didn’t get one installed. I think he downloaded ide separately, but as he’s a bit impationt, he didn’t get it to work.
Then he notices new version. Downloaded that, only to fail to compile since he have no compiler since there’s no minGW version available. We’ll, he’s have to get the visual studio for the compiler, so guess what IDE and framework he’s going to use for learning now, after two consecutive fails with qt? One soul more lost. And by the way, by the quick look the getting started guide will not help…
Despite my brothers woes, I got a bit excited and thought I’d continue my old project n900 and port it to N9 the phone is at hand. Brand new qt5 and all. So I downloaded the thing only to notice, that there’s seemingly no emulators and such bundled anymore, no sdk-maintenance to get them. Is it discontinued and if, why in earth? Then after a bit of searching, I found out that N9 is not supported anymore. So there’s no actually sincle mobile platform supported in qt5? Well what the hell, 4.8.4 will work. No wait, source distributions for linux only? There were binaries earlier, one install and everytghing worked. Why no more? I’m not interested to fiddle with environments, I’d like to get into coding already. Well, theres qt-project, maybe it’ll go fine, just a bit of waiting that’s all? Well no, extra character in project file.
Sigh. I’m done.
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