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Qt has not even released a final version of Qt4.4.0 but 4.4.0_rc1 is already in portage. What does that mean? Well first of all that some people that complain that gentoo is now always up to date with its versions are proven wrong. Just run an ~arch system and you won’t really get more bleeding edge than that.

But the other thing Qt4.4.0_rc1 is that qt is that we now have qt-core. This means that you can compile and run qt programs on machines without X. I find this a huge advantage since I really like coding in Qt. First of all OS independancy this isn’t the most usefull feature for me since I only run linux but it is always good to know more people can use the things you create.

However the most usefull thing I find is the easy use of sockets and string modulation. It currently is masked ~M on x86. And not even keyworded on the other arches. However I added the amd64 keyword and compiled it on my home server. Compilation went smooth and a simple hello world program worked like a charm. So soon I can write some nice usefull (at least for me) servers in Qt wich should safe me a lot of time. Which is always a good thing

Yet another reason why I just love Qt.