Why no living Qt binding?

llancet has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Recently I found Perl's Gtk2 module is tedious to be properly installed on Windows. As Qt is a famous GUI library, I searched the Perl bindings for that, but found there is no living one: the one called "PerlQt" is for Qt3 and is not updated since 2003; the one called "Perl Qt4" is not updated since 2008.

So why there are no Qt binding, and the previous ones are all dead? And why the Gtk2 and Tk bindings successfully kept alive to now?

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Re: Why no living Qt binding? by daxim (Curate) on Jul 19, 2012 at 14:43 UTC
You've been looking in the wrong places. perlqt4 repository $ rpm -qi perl-qt4-devel Name : perl-qt4-devel Version : 4.8.4 Release : 45.2 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Di 19 Jun 2012 17:59:59 CEST Group : Development/Languages/Perl Size : 205840 License : GPL-2.0+ Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sa 09 Jun 2012 11:19:28 CEST, Key ID 27c070176 +f88bb2f Source RPM : perl-qt4-4.8.4-45.2.src.rpm Build Date : Sa 09 Jun 2012 11:12:10 CEST Build Host : build05 Relocations : (not relocatable) Vendor : obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE URL : https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdebindings/perl/p +erlqt Summary : Development libraries for Perl-Qt4 Description : This package contains development files for the Perl bindings for the +Qt4 libraries. Distribution: KDE:Release:48 / openSUSE_12.1 $ rpm -qi perl-kde4 Name : perl-kde4 Version : 4.8.4 Release : 23.2 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Di 19 Jun 2012 18:02:59 CEST Group : Development/Libraries/KDE Size : 583948 License : LGPL-2.1+ Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mo 18 Jun 2012 20:10:34 CEST, Key ID 27c070176 +f88bb2f Source RPM : perl-kde4-4.8.4-23.2.src.rpm Build Date : Mo 18 Jun 2012 20:09:59 CEST Build Host : build11 Relocations : (not relocatable) Vendor : obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE URL : https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdebindings/perl/p +erlkde Summary : Kdebindings Perl-KDE library Description : Perl bindings for libraries created by the KDE community. Distribution: KDE:Release:48 / openSUSE_12.1 [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Why no living Qt binding? by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jul 19, 2012 at 14:41 UTC
Volunteers work on what itches them. So, apparently, no one with the proper tuits has this itch. (I have this itch, too, but not the tuits.)	[reply]
Re: Why no living Qt binding? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 20, 2012 at 01:10 UTC
So why there are no Qt binding, and the previous ones are all dead? And why the Gtk2 and Tk bindings successfully kept alive to now? That sounds childish to me, but I admit I'm weird http://search.cpan.org/~cburel/ `Distribution Released Alien-QtSmoke-4.3.3 15 Dec 2009 Alien-SmokeQt-4.6.0.4 18 Mar 2011 Qt-0.96.0 19 Mar 2011 Qt4-0.99.0 14 Feb 2012` [download] http://search.cpan.org/search?m=dist&q=QT&s=1&n=50	[reply] [d/l]