📅 Original date posted:2011-06-17
🗒️ Summary of this message: Gavin Andresen proposes replacing the wxWidgets GUI with a Qt GUI for the Bitcoin reference client, citing support for multiple GUIs as a bad idea.
📝 Original message:On Friday, June 17, 2011 12:27:22 PM Gavin Andresen wrote:
> I'm in favor of dropping the wxWidgets GUI and replacing it with a Qt
> GUI. I think supporting more than one GUI for the reference client is
> a bad idea.
>
> Qt is LGPL, so license for that is not an issue.
> John, you willing to release your code under the bitcoin MIT license?
>
> Everybody else: anybody object to replacing "the devil we know"
> (wxWidgets) with Qt?
So long as we can get a solid name for it. Obviously I can't continue to call
it wxBitcoin if it's strictly Qt...
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2023-06-07 03:21:52
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