Qt vs. GTK+ (was: Qt Ada database support?)

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Stephen Leake wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Note that I have a bias towards Gtk over Qt. That's because I have a
> history with AdaCore (who maintain Gtk), and none with TrollTech (who
> maintain Qt). The Debian project supports both, but there seems to be
> a general preference for Gtk; Gnome is the default desktop, for
> instance.

In Debian 5.0 "Lenny", there are different installer CD-ROMs for each
of GNOME, KDE, XFCE and LXDE so the fact that GNOME is the "default"
is somewhat blurred now.

However, it is true that QtAda is not in Debian whereas GtkAda is.
Nobody has yet stepped up to package QtAda for Debian.

The fact that Qt is pure GPL whereas GTK+ is LGPL might be important
to some people but not for Ada programmers since both QtAda and GtkAda
are pure GPL.

--
Ludovic Brenta.